Post by mgm on Nov 24, 2017 17:08:51 GMT
Psychological Phenomena: “I become exceedingly anxious about going to my tutorials, so much so that I often skip. Im really nervous that the TA will think I don’t know anything.”
Cognitive social approach:
The cognitive social approach would look at the type of thoughts that are going through the person’s mind when in the tutorial and examine them and try and understand them. For example, when in the tutorial the person may have thoughts such as “I am going to be asked a question and not know what to say - everyone will think I’m stupid” or “I always get so nervous when answering questions and I never give any right answers because I can’t think under pressure”. The approach taken by the cognitive social psychologist in attempting to change the phenomena would be to reveal the unfounded underlying assumptions from which these thoughts emerge by analyzing the thoughts themselves and questioning them objectively and then looking for evidence to support a revised theory. A response might be something like “if you are asked a question and don’t know the answer, does that mean that everyone will think you’re stupid? Or could it be that the assumption that everyone will think you’re stupid is inaccurate? Maybe everyone else doesn’t know the answer either - maybe no judgement is taking place whatsoever - is there a way we could test this new theory to find evidence for or against it?”
Psychoanalytic approach (Freud):
This approach would be interested in looking for unconscious influences that manifest themselves in such a way as to produce the resulting problematic thoughts and behaviours. Different techniques would be used to try and access the unconscious material - such as association and dream analysis techniques - coaxing it to emerge from the unconscious so it can be confronted in a direct way. Treatment would involve analyzing these unconscious conflicts, which are unresolved issues from the past that have been repressed into the subconscious as a way to alleviate anxiety - and finding a way to come to terms with them in the light of consciousness so as to prevent them from exerting any further unwanted influence on daily life.
Cognitive social approach:
The cognitive social approach would look at the type of thoughts that are going through the person’s mind when in the tutorial and examine them and try and understand them. For example, when in the tutorial the person may have thoughts such as “I am going to be asked a question and not know what to say - everyone will think I’m stupid” or “I always get so nervous when answering questions and I never give any right answers because I can’t think under pressure”. The approach taken by the cognitive social psychologist in attempting to change the phenomena would be to reveal the unfounded underlying assumptions from which these thoughts emerge by analyzing the thoughts themselves and questioning them objectively and then looking for evidence to support a revised theory. A response might be something like “if you are asked a question and don’t know the answer, does that mean that everyone will think you’re stupid? Or could it be that the assumption that everyone will think you’re stupid is inaccurate? Maybe everyone else doesn’t know the answer either - maybe no judgement is taking place whatsoever - is there a way we could test this new theory to find evidence for or against it?”
Psychoanalytic approach (Freud):
This approach would be interested in looking for unconscious influences that manifest themselves in such a way as to produce the resulting problematic thoughts and behaviours. Different techniques would be used to try and access the unconscious material - such as association and dream analysis techniques - coaxing it to emerge from the unconscious so it can be confronted in a direct way. Treatment would involve analyzing these unconscious conflicts, which are unresolved issues from the past that have been repressed into the subconscious as a way to alleviate anxiety - and finding a way to come to terms with them in the light of consciousness so as to prevent them from exerting any further unwanted influence on daily life.