PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Psy, Cognitive Restructuring
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The theoretical basis of this approach has three main components. They can be flooded with thoughts of worthlessness and handicap, consequently they become sure that the lives of others would improve if they disappeared or there would be no difference about their own existence. 2: again, such beliefs, if not true, are a common cognitive tendency on the part of individuals after experiencing certain particular types of events. Losing a job, losing a promotion, going into retirement, and failing an exam are several examples of types of experiences that can create a sense of distress. In the case of thoughts intervened by comments followed by constant emotional abuse, they only come to reaffirm the constant self-disqualification that an individual already possesses. 2: the acquired capacity, the third element, acquired capacity, validates the process that occurs when the brain centers responsible for motivation and learning interact and the mood changes the perceived intensity of pain.