PSYCH 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Impulsivity, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Open Relationship
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Beck: cognitive schemas: a set of core beliefs and assumptions about how the world operates. Automatic thoughts: thoughts that occur without effort or choice, can be distorted. Thinking in extremes, such as all good or all bad, with nothing in the middle. Someone who is getting straight as and then gets one b and so he drops from the class! Someone learning a new sport and is able to do it on the first few tries will be like. Mind reading: believing that we know the thought sin another person"s mind. Psychiatrist would be like why do you think people think about you like that . Catastrophizing: exaggerating the potential or real consequences of an event and becoming fearful of the consequences. I was dating someone and then they stopped talking to me. Live under a bridge, be an outcauset and die there. I didn"t get a good grade on that test.
