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