Explanations

• What does the cognitive approach focus on?

  thinking processes which occur between a stimulus and a response (beck, ellis)
• what does the cognitive approach assume?

  Distorted thinking is the cause of emotional problems
• what does the cognitive approach think that behaviour is affected by?

  cognitions
• What does the cognitive approach think that people with psychological problems tend 2 do?

  'cognitive errors' people with psychological problems tend to make inaccurate attributions
• what does the cognitive approach think occurs?

  • over-generalisation
  • magnification
  • minimisation