PSYC 4060- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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People respond to life events through a combination of cognitive/ affective/ motivational/ and behavioral responses. Aims to adjust information processing and start positive change in all systems through the cog. Collaboratively, therapist and patient examine the patient"s beliefs about: him/ herself/ other people and the world: basic concepts. Thought of as a theory, system of strategies, and a series of techniques. Theory based on: idea that the processing of info is crucial for the survival of any organism. If we can"t take in relevant information, synthesize it, formulate a plan of action we would soon die or be killed. Each system- cognitive, behavioral, affective, and motivational is composed of schemas. Schemas, contain people"s perceptions of themselves and others and of their goals and expectations, memories, fantasies, previous learning. In certain disorders, people have a negative bias including a negative view of self.
