Cognitive Behavioral Theory - Ellis & Bandura

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• Cognitive Behavioral Theory Basis: All behavior based on what we THINK/BELIEVE Automatic Thoughts:  Inappropriate/Irrational thinking patterns **Assumes maladaptive or faulty thinking patterns cause maladaptive behaviors/negative emotions Events are Neutral: events receive their value from our thoughts about them Attribution: meaning placed on event or situation

• Albert Ellis   Developed RET or REBT (Rational Emotion/Behavioral Therapy) RET/REBT - works with ABCD's of Human Experience   1. Activating Agent: anything thought to be source of unhappiness 2. Belief - irrational, self-defeating beliefs; event not source 3. Consequences: feelings consequences of beliefs re: events 4. Disputation: therapist disputes person's beliefs 5. Corrective Emotional Experience: help have realistic goals;   Focus of Therapy: divided beliefs into - rational vs. irrational   **Create own world through how interpret experiences  

• Albert Bandura   Developed Theory of Social Modeling ** Felt that learning occurs through imitation ** More effective as training method vs. trial and error learning ** Aggressive behavior learned by observation          Bobo Doll experiment   Learning Occurs via 4 Processes 1. Attention - ability to notice things in environment 2. Retention - remember what you saw 3. Reproduction - ability to imitate what is seen 4. Motivation - consequence of environment must be reinforcing or won't repeat