Cognitive Psychology

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Although learning paradigms initially avoided cognitive concepts&comma; contemporary experimental psychology is very much concerned with cognitive concepts&period; The cognitive behavior therapies emphasize the direct manipulation of overt behavior and occasionally of covert behavior&comma; with thoughts and feelings being construed as internal behaviors&period; &lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;They pay relatively little attention to direct alteration of the thinking and reasoning processes of the client&period; Cognitive psychologists have until recently paid little systematic attention to how their research findings bear on psychopathology or how they might help generate effective therapies&period; Now cognitive explanations appear more and more often in the search for the causes of abnormality and for new methods of interventions&period; A widely held view of depression&comma; for example&comma; places the blame in a particular cognitive set&comma; namely&comma; the individual’s overriding sense of hopelessness&period; Many people who are depressed believe that they have no important effect on their surroundings regardless of what they do&period; Their destiny seems to them to be out of their hands&comma; and they expect their future to be negative&period; If depression develops from a sense of hopelessness&comma; this fact could have implications for how clinicians treat the disorder&period; The cognitive behavior therapy does incorporate theory and research on cognitive processes&semi; it has become a blend of the cognitive and learning paradigms&period; CBT therapists pay attention to private events – thoughts&comma; perceptions&comma; judgments&comma; assumptions etc and have studied and manipulated these processes in their attempts to understand and modify overt and covert disturbed behavior&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;