Beck

• Suggest there is a cognitive explaination as to why some people are more vulnerable to depression than others
• What are the three parts to vulnerability that Beck suggested?


  Faulty information processing, negative self schemas, the negative triad
• what is the faulty information processing?


  people that are depressed make fundamental errors in logic as they tend to only select negative aspects of a situation and ignore the positive aspects - think ink black and white
• What is the negative self-schema?


  It is when someone’s ideas and information they have about themselves is negative, common in depressed people
• What was the aim of Weismann and becks experiment?


  Investigate the thought process of depressed people to establish if they make use of negative schemas
• What was the method of Weismann and beck?


  Measured thoughts and makes them fill in a questionnaire
• What were the results if weismann and beck?


  Found depressed patients gave more depressed assessments
• What was the conclusion of Weismann and beck?


  depression involves the use of negative schemas
• What is the negative triad?


  It is built on the idea of maladaptive responses and that people with depression become trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts
• What are the three points if the negative triad?


  Negative view if the self, negative view of the future, negative view of the world