Cognitive Distortions
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Behavioral
Cognitive
100
Seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a situation

What is Catastrophizing

100

Considered grandfather of CBT

(Hint)REBT

Who is Ellis?

100
A technique used in CBT, where a therapist uses a line of questioning to identify and change the validity of, thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions associated with client's troubles

What is Socratic Questioning

100

A strategic way to face feared situation until fear resides

What is Exposures or Exposure Response Prevention

100

Underlying core beliefs

What are Schemas

200

Making broad interpretations from a single or limited number of events

What is Overgeneralization

200

What time period did the cognitive revolution start to take place along with CT

1960's

200

A form of cognitive-behavioral therapy in which a client is encouraged to examine and change irrational thought patterns (irrational thinking) and beliefs in order to reduce dysfunctional behavior.

What is REBT or Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

200

A behavior mod technique where a form of "currency" is used to increase desirable behaviors 

What is a token economy 

200

 A diagram that depicts how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are all interconnected with each other, and influence one another

What is the Cognitive or Thought Triangle

300

Interpreting the thoughts and actions of another without adequate evidence

What is Mind-Reading

300

Consider a founder of CT.

Who is Beck?

(Other names will be accepted)

300

A written agreement between family members that specifies expectations of behaviors and consequences for meeting or not meeting those behaviors

What is a contingency Contract?

300

A behavior therapy technique in which deep muscle relaxation is used to inhibit the effects of graded anxiety-evoking stimuli

What is Systematic Desensitization

300

Beck identified how many cognitive distortions

What is 11 or How many is 11

400

The assumptions that emotions reflect the way things really are

What is Emotional Reasoning

400
The objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and to identify those which are dysfunction, irrational, or unhelpful. This is done in an effort to replace them with a more realistic or helpful way of thinking

What is CBT

400

When clients observe the desired behavior through observational learning

What is Modeling

400

Spontaneous cognitions, which are mostly conscious

What are Automatic Thoughts

500

Thinking in absolutes

What is All-or-Nothing thinking

500

Average Number of Session for CBT

How many is 16? or What is 16?

500
Initial recorded observations that are to be changed through treatment conditions

What is Base Line

500

The process of drawing a conclusion without sufficient evidence, or without any evidence at all

What is Arbitrary Interference

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