Cognitions: help or hindrance?
A major advance in the last decade has been interest in the psychological environment that people generate by their own responses. These responses may be parts of larger social acts and may serve as reinforcing and discriminative stimuli. Problems arise when professionals make abstractions out of manipulatable human acts to cover gaps in theory; and then make these abstractions their clinical target rather than the individual's behavior in response to specific situations.
D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory