ionAutomatic Thoughts: A Cognitive Distortion.

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automatic thoughts
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in Beck's model, these thoughts are running commentary on much of what people od or experience--they are present in the experience of healthy people as well as torubled people--having to do with self-monitoring, they tend to arise on their own, as if by reflex, and are usually followed by an unpleasant emotion
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cognitive distortions
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appearing during psychological distress, systematic errors in reasoning that frequently combine negative styles of thinking into automatic chains of negative processing
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cognitive schemas
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developed early in childhood, schemas vary in strength--they are somewhat dependent on mood--composed of both general and specific fundamental core beliefs about how the self, others, and the world operate
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cognitive triad
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combination of perceptions the individual harbors, including beliefs about the self, the world, and the future
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human cognition
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phenomena that comprise the processes of thinking, perceiving, remembering, evaluation, planning, and organizing, to name a few--principles and mechanisms that govern these phenomena are of underlying concern to all cognitive psychologists
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logic of the cognitive approach
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the commonsense bias of Ellis's and other cognitive therapies--the logic can be expressed in four principles: 1) when people are anxious or depressed, they inadvertently act in a self-defeating way and think in a negative, illogical manner 2) people can learn to rid themselves of harmful thoughts pattens, with a little effort 3) they will become happy and productive again and will respect themselves as their painful symptoms are eliminated 4) these aims, which employ straightforward methods, are usually accomplished in a fairly brief period of time
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modeling
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exhibiting behavior that others imitate or learn from
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moral disengagement
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for Bandura, this is a failure in self-regulation concerning our moral and ethical behavior
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observational (vicarious) learning
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learning that occurs as a result of observing the behavior of others
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person-as-scientist
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the notion that both scientists are non-scientists develop and test hypotheses about the world around them
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reciprocal determinism
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Bandura's term for the interaction of cognitive processes and the external social and physical environment
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self
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Bandura defines as the cognitive processes and structures we use to observe and regulate our own behavior
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self-efficacy
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beliefs we hold about our own skills and capacities in a particular activity
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triadic reciprocity
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Bandura's theory of interaction amount behavior, internal factors, and the environment
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