PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Distortion, Cognitive Restructuring
23 Jun 2011
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Chapter 25: cognitive behaviour modification: examples: help with anger problems, help a child pay attention in class, cognitive behaviours are covert, they can"t be observed directly and recorded by an independent observer. Rather, the person engaging in the cognitive behaviour must identify and record the occurrence of the behaviour. Functions of cognitive behaviour: conditioned stimulus that elicits conditioned response. examples - anxiety, anger, sexual arousal: discriminative stimuli sd for desirable behaviours. examples: self-instructions, problem-solving, decision-making: establishing operations that influence the power of consequences to function as reinforcers or punishers. examples: imagining a positive outcome of an action: reinforcing and punishing consequences with they follow some other behaviour. Types of cognitive behaviour: cognitive restructuring: client helps identify cognitive behaviours that are distressing and then helps the client get rid of these distressing thoughts or replace them with more desirable thoughts. Identify emotional response or behaviour that follows the thoughts www. notesolution. com.
