PSY-2212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Cognitive Restructuring
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Uses psychological principles to help the client change behavior, feelings, and thoughts. To overcome abnormal behavior, solve problems, or develop as an individual. Problems rooted in childhood from unconcscious conflicts of mind of relationships with others. Were going to be in this human experience together. Tendency to assume what others think rather than clarifying. Tendency to interpret events in black or white terms, when most of the world exists in the gray area. Tendency to draw a larger, general conclusion from a smaller, isolated event. Researching a conclusion in the absence of real evidence, or predicting the future without evidence. Exaggerating the negative meaning of an event or devaluing the positive meaning. Tendency to blame oneself for negative external events when there"s no evidence. Tendency to focus exclusively on a single detail while ignoring the more accurate, bigger picture. Tendency to believe that if you feel it, it must be true.
