A01

• What did Beck suggest?

  -a person's cognition can lead to a vulnerability for depression
• What are the 3 elements to Beck's theory

  -negative self schema

  -negative triad

  -faulty info processing
• Name one thing included in FIP

  -overgeneralisations: make sweeping generalisations based on one incident
• Name a second thing included in FIP

  -catastrophising: belief that a minor setback is a complete disaster
• name a third thing included in FIP

  -cognitive bias: an error in individuals thinking that leads them to misinterpret info from the world
• What did Beck find

  -that depressed people are more likely to focus on the negative aspects of a situation and ignore the positives
• Outline negative self schemas

  -someone with depression will have a negative self schema which results in an individual only focusing on the negative undesirable aspects of themselves
• Outline negative triad


  -traid of thoughts linked to depression

  -negative views of the world, of the future and ,of the self