page_title: Cognitive vulnerability
section_title: Depression
hierarchical_section_title: Cognitive vulnerability / Psychological problems / Depression
caption_attribution_description: English: This image is created by me to explain the dual process model for cognitive vulnerability into depression.
context_page_description: A cognitive vulnerability in cognitive psychology is an erroneous belief, cognitive bias, or pattern of thought that predisposes an individual to psychological problems. The vulnerability exists before the symptoms of a psychological disorder appear. After the individual encounters a stressful experience, the cognitive vulnerability shapes a maladaptive response that increases the likelihood of a psychological disorder.
  In psychopathology, there are several perspectives from which the origins of cognitive vulnerabilities can be examined,
  It is the path way of including cognitive schema models, hopelessness models, and attachment theory. Attentional bias is one mechanism leading to faulty cognitive bias that leads to cognitive vulnerability. Allocating a danger level to a threat depends on the urgency or intensity of the threshold. Anxiety is not associated with selective orientation.
context_section_description: Through several cognitive biases, selective mood-congruent cues become established over long intervals.  Emotional stimuli matching the emotional concerns create an aggregate effect on symptoms related to depression. Depression is associated with selective orientation. It prevents attention toward emotional cues that do not fit the internalized scheme to which the individual has become vulnerable, and leads to comorbid anxiety. When individuals who are prone to depression are asked to recall a specific event, they explain the general class of events (e.g., "The time when I was living with my parents").
caption: Diagram of the downward spiral in the dual process model of depression
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