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The Cognitive Model

The cognitive model assumes that cognition, behavior, and biochemistry are important components of depressive disorders. According to essay #12, many cognitions central to depressive processes are our perceptions, attributions, beliefs, values, and expectations. Our attributions refer to events that have already occurred; expectations refer to our opinions about events in the near and distance future. Attributions may or may not contribute to the formulation of expectations, but is it the expected that produces the affect and behavior that follows.
In accordance with essay #12, Hollon and Garber refer to perceptions to include identifying, discriminating, recognizing, and judging events. One often recognizes contingencies between classes of events, and is affected by paired stimulation that are correlated. According to lecture, an example of correlations in peoples mind is "If I am not perfect, I am worthless." Beck states that when "arbitrary inferences" are made, people......


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