According to Merriam-Webster (1995), emotion refer to the strong feelings an individual may experience as trong rections (fear or anger) to his environment.
Behavior (Merriam-Webster, 1995) is defined as the way an individual reacts to his environment and the past and present experiences that cause these reactions. I feel that an individual 's response to a new experience is based on their history of experiences and if the individual experiences positive thoughts and beliefs the individual most probably will respond positively to similar new events and if the individual is plagued by negative thoughts and beliefs the individual will probably respond negatively to similar new events.
The cognitive-behavior school (Clark and Fairburn, 1999) describe the relationship between cognition, emtion and behavior as a combination, which determines the way an individual will cope with events in their lives. What a person believes about what he thinks is very important. How an event is interpreted determines how an individual repond to it (Bergin and Garfield ed.,1994).
Cognitive intervention (Bergin and Garfield ed., 1994) is an attempt to produce change in an individual by influencing his thing, thereby changing his beliefs and his response to them.
According to Matthwes (Clark and Fairburn (Eds.),1999), we normally interpret situations automatically without much thought. However, an emotional disorder can occur when an individual experiences an increase in distressing thoughts and their
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