In Beck & Bredemeier article (2016), the author links depressive self-referential schemas with depression. Depressive self-referential schemas about the low self-esteem, negative self-evaluation, and high expectations of negative outcomes, of a man, can impaired with his attention, interpretation, and memory. Self-referential schemas determine how individual appraisal a stimulus.
The biased attentions in a depressed individual is more likely to lead to him or her not being able to attend the appropriate emotional cues. It is likely that the negative emotional cues block the positive information because of an underactive anterior cingulate cortex, which the portion of the brain regulates the inhibitory processes A depressed