A neighbourhood repair café's application for a grant to buy tools is turned down. Malik responds, "The café is finished now: the premises will close, nobody will trust us again and we will never get another project started." Priya, who prepared the budget, keeps thinking, "The panel rejected us because I missed something. This decision is entirely my responsibility, not the group's." Lewis refuses to celebrate any of the work, saying, "Without the grant, none of this counts. Every repair we have done this year has been a waste of time."
Using the ABC model, explain the irrational belief shown by each person.
144 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 3.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 3.2.1 Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia, 3.2.2 Key statistics of schizophrenia, 3.2.3 Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, 3.2.4 Brain structure and function in schizophrenia; criticisms, 3.2.5 Social drift theory of schizophrenia, 3.2.6 Schizophrenia research study: Daniel et al. (1991), 3.2.7 Clinical characteristics of clinical depression, 3.2.8 Key statistics of clinical depression, 3.2.9 Social rank theory of clinical depression, 3.2.10 ABC Model of clinical depression, and 3.2.11 Clinical Depression research study: Tandoc et al. (2015). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.