Cognitive explanations for depression

• What are the 3 cognitive explanations found by Beck?

  1. Faulty informational processing
  2. Negative self-schemas
  3. The negative triad
• What did Beck (1967) say about faulty informational processing?

  This is when depressed people attend to negative aspect of a situation and ignore the positives
• What did Beck (1967) say about negative self-schemas?

  Depressed people with negative schemas interpret all information about themselves in a negative way.
• What are te three aspects of the negative triad?

  negative view of: the self, the world, the future.
• What is Ellis’ (1962) ABC model?

  -Activating event i.e bad grade

  -triggers irrational Beliefs i.e beliefs that they must always be successful (‘masturbation’)

  -which leads to the Consequence, the depression