All About Thoughts
Terms & Definitions
Strategies & Stuff
Stimulus-Response
Nervous System
100
Extremely common patterns of negative thinking
What are Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)?
100
Our class definition of mental health
What is, "how I think about myself, other people and the world"?
100
It is what the "Cs" stand for in the 3Cs Method.
What is catching, checking and changing.
100
Light waves
What is a "stimulus"?
100
Anything that trigger a response in our brain
What is " stimuli?"
200
Automatic thoughts, snap judgments and first impressions are all examples of ____________.
What is, "System 1 Thinking"?
200
The hardwired human tendency to focus on negative information more than positive or neutral information.
What is "negativity bias"?
200
A tool you can use when your choices really matter
What is, "A Decision Making Process?"
200
The shark swims toward the direction of the smell of blood.
What is a "response?"
200
Located in our organs and responsible for detecting sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touch and other sensations.
What are "Sensory Receptors?"
300
What are thoughts?
Patterns of electrical pulses created as a response to stimuli.
300
The physical, mental, and emotional reactions of your body to the challenges you face.
What is "stress"?
300
The three components of the cognitive triangle.
What are thoughts, feelings and behaviors?
300
Study the picture. Name the stimulus in the scenario.
What is "heat" or "sweat"?
I will accept some variety.
300
The system of nerves that are located around the body.
What is the "Peripheral Nervous System?"
400
You are deciding whether or not to eat chips or a piece of fruit for a snack. You take your time to weigh the pros and cons for each option. This slow, rational thought process is an example of _________
What is, "System 2 Thinking"?
400
The feeling of fear or dread when you expect something negative to happen
What is "anxiety"?
400
This word means you can recover when distressing experiences disrupt how you think about yourself, others or the world.
What is "resilience"?
Also accept "antifragility"
400
Name the stimulus and the response
What is "hunger" and "eating ice cream"?
400
The type of neuron that takes messages from the brain and delivers them to various parts of the body.
What are "motor neurons?"
500
In the Little Albert experiment, the researchers created a very loud bang whenever the small mouse came near him. This created a phobia in Little Albert, making him afraid of furry white things even without the loud noise. This experiment is an example of which hardwired brain trait at work?
What is the trait of "making associations or pattern finding"?
500
What phrase explains the scientific fact that when we repeat thoughts, behaviors or feelings that strengthens the connections between those neurons and can lead to habits and beliefs?
What is neurons that "fire together, wire together"?
500
These are skills your brain uses to get things done.
Executive Skills
500
The type of response that is usually involuntary and internal like nausea.
What is "physiological?"
500
The type of pathway formed by sensory neurons that allows messages from the body to arrive in the brain.
What are "Afferent Pathways?"