1. Can you think of any factors which might affect which image you are more likely to see first?

4. The Cognitive Model Thinking Behaviour Emotion Perception Cognition
Thinking
Behaviour
Emotion
Perception
Information
Cognition
Real World

5. Cognition & Depression
Depression results from systematic negative bias in thinking processes
Emotional, behavioural (and physical?) symptoms result from cognitive abnormality
Depressed cognitive triad
Silent assumptions
Faulty thinking strategies

6. Depressed Cognitive Triad
The Self
Experiences
The Future

7. Silent Assumptions
Grounding assumptions operating at a semi-conscious level:
‘I must get people’s approval’
‘I must do things perfectly’
‘I must always be valued by others’
‘The world must be fair and just’

8. Faulty Thinking Systematic negative bias in information processing:
Systematic negative bias in information processing:
Arbitrary inference
Selective thinking
Overgeneralisation
Catastrophising
Personalising
Black and white thinking

9. Cognition & Depression
Some hypotheses:
Depressed patients think differently to clinically normal people
Changes in thinking precede the onset of depressed mood
Changing thinking patterns can reduce or remove depressed symptoms (NB treatment-aetiology fallacy)