Terms
Fallacies
Minimizing Debilitative Emotions
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emotions 101
100

This is the non vocal, internal monologue that is our process of thinking.

What is self-talk?

100

This fallacy is the inability to distinguish between what is and what should be.

What is the fallacy of should?

100

This step in the process is where you analyze the thoughts that are the link between the activating event and your feelings, it will help you recognize your debilitative thoughts in your internal monologue.

What is record your self talk?

100

Most scholars acknowledge that anger, joy, fear, sadness, and disgust are these.

What are common and typical emotions?

100

These changes are characterized by increased heart rate, pupil dilation, tightening in our chest, feeling warm all over, and elevated blood pressure.

What are physiological changes?

200

This is the term used to refer to the recurrent thoughts not demanded by the immediate environment.

What is rumination?

200

This fallacy occurs when a person bases a belief on a limited amount of information.

What is the fallacy of overgeneralization?

200

This step in the process is where you recognize WHEN you're having debilitative emotions.

What is monitor your emotional reactions?

200

This is rethinking the meaning of emotionally charged events in ways that alter their emotional impact.

What is reappraisal?

200

This influence on emotional expression can help those who have trouble sharing feelings face to face, but can be seen negatively because of disinhibition, and the emotional tirades that wouldn't occur in a face to face conversation

What is social media?

300

This is the term used to describe situations in which managing and even suppressing emotions are both appropriate and necessary.

What is emotional labor?

300

This fallacy is based on Murphy's Law, if something bad can happen, it probably will.

What is fallacy of catastrophic expectations?

300

Once you dispute your irrational beliefs, this step takes time to change your intrapersonal language.

What is change your self-talk?

300

The fact that people around the world experience the same emotions, but the same events can generate different feelings depending on where you're from is an example of this influencing your emotions.

What is culture?

300

It is not the event that causes us to feel a certain way, rather it is this.

What is the belief we hold about the event.

400

These emotions hinder or prevent effective performance.

What are debilitative emotions?

400

People suffering from this fallacy go to incredible lengths to seek acceptance from others, even to the extent of sacrificing their own principles and happiness.

What is the fallacy of approval?

400

Once you're aware of how you're feeling, you must figure out what triggered your response in this step.

What is note the activating event?

400

Minimizing negative emotions is just as important as learned optimism or learned positivity, which are other words for this.

What is maximizing facilitative emotions?

400

These contribute to effective functioning.

What are facilitative emotions?

500

This describes the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and to be sensitive to others' feelings.

What is emotional intelligence?

500

This fallacy suggests that forces beyond our control determine satisfaction in life.

What is the fallacy of helplessness?
500

In this step you engage in the reappraisal process - decide if your belief is rational, explaining why it is or isn't, and if it isn't you consider an alternative way of thinking.

What is dispute your irrational thoughts?

500

This method of minimizing debilitative feelings is based on the idea that the key to changing feelings is to change unproductive cognitive interpretations.

What is the rational-emotive approach?

500

You should use this kind of language in order to accept responsibility for your own feelings and not blame others for how we feel.

What is "I" language?