Types 1
Exaggerating or minimizing the importance of events.
What is Magnification and Minimization?
Making broad interpretations from a single or few events.
What is overgeneralization?
Your car starts to make an odd noise one morning on the way to campus. You immediately start thinking that there must be something seriously wrong with it, and fixing it will cost a fortune.
What is catastrophizing?
Mind reading and fortune telling are subsets of what type of cognitive distortion?
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence
What is jumping to conclusions?
Interpreting the thoughts and beliefs of others without adequate evidence.
What is mind reading?
"If only I had been a better friend, then he would be doing better."
What is Personalization?
What is another term for cognitive distortion?
What is irrational thoughts?
OR
What is faulty thinking?
The assumption that emotions reflect the way things really are.
i.e. I feel like a failure therefore I must be a failure.
What is emotional reasoning?
The belief that one is responsible for events outside of their own control.
What is Personalization?
She complimented my outfit, she was only being nice.
What is disqualifying the positive?
OR
What is Minimization?
Catastrophizing is a subset of what kind of cognitive distortion?
What is Magnification and Minimization?
The belief that things should be a certain way.
What are should statements?
Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive.
What is Disqualifying the Positive?
My partner never texts me first, they must not love me.
What is All-or-Nothing thinking?
What are the 4 main prompts to consider when challenging negative thinking?
What are Evidence, Helpfulness, Alternative perspectives, and Thinking biases?
Thinking in absolutes, such as "always", "never" or "every"
What is All-or-Nothing thinking?
The expectation that a situation will turn out badly without adequate evidence.
What is fortune telling?
What is Magical Thinking?
What week of anxiety group is this?
What is week 5?