Mental Filtering
Emotions are accepted as facts because logical reasoning is blocked. The feelings associated with their emotions are the only truth.
What is emotional reasoning?
Assuming something will happen without any evidence.
What is jumping to conclusions?
This could cause a direct and personal reaction to everything others do or say whether or not it was related to them.
What is personalization?
The person believes that their life is controlled by outside circumstances that are already decided. There is a feeling of a lack of control in every area of their lives.
What is the fallacy of external control?
Asking other people if the thought is realistic?
What is the survey method?
Focusing on the negative of the situation
What is negative mental filtering?
They are assuming other people’s reasons or intentions for behavior.
What is mind-reading?
Attaching all fault to someone else and denying any role in the issue or problem.
What is blaming?
The belief that a person has complete control over themselves and their surroundings. They believe that they are responsible for pain and happiness of everyone around them.
What is the fallacy of internal control?
Pros and cons
What is cost benefit analysis?
Finding excuses to look at the negative.
What is disqualifying the positives?
Predicting things will turn out bad under any circumstance.
What is fortune telling?
Instead of believing that they or someone else made a mistake, it is taken as a part of who they are or who that other person is.
What is labeling?
This is an assumption that others should change to suit their own interests. These people will pressure others to change to make them happy.
What is the fallacy of change?
Test the validity of the thought
What is the experiemental method?
Looking at things in absolutes as if there were no middle ground.
What is all or nothing thinking?
Over-exaggerating a thought so that the situation is believed to be the worst-case scenario
What is Magnification?
Internalizing opinions as facts. They will put others on trial to prove that their own opinions or actions are correct.
What is always being right?
The belief that everything should be evaluated based on equality. It is expectations versus reality.
What is the fallacy of fairness?
Putting thoughts on trial or Socratic questioning
What is examine the evidence?
Looking at only a single event as representative of a conclusion about the person or circumstance.
What is over-generalization?
The belief that an event is of little importance.
What is minimization?
They could experience guilt and frustration when expectations are not met.
What are should statements?
This is the belief that we live in a fair world and that we should be rewarded according to our hard work, self-denial and sacrifice.
What is the Heaven's reward fallacy?
Looking at the multiple factors that go into the situation.
What is re-attribution?