Thinking Traps
Thinking that if you call your mom on her cell phone she won’t get into an accident.
What is Magical Thinking?
You decide not to perform in a recital because you are sure that you are going to mess up.
What is Fortune Telling?
Believing that if you and your classmates don’t walk in a straight line like your teacher told you to, your teacher will call your parents and you will get in big trouble.
What is the Should and Must Rule?
If I don't win this competition, I am a failure
What is Black-and-White Thinking?
The part of the triangle that has traps.
What is the Thinking side of the triangle?
Saying to yourself, “I am ugly,” or “I am stupid.”
What is Labeling?
You tell yourself that you only made a good grade on a test because the questions just happened to be easy.
What is Ignoring the Positive?
Frustrated, annoyed, happy, excited.
What is the feelings part of the triangle?
If you feel it in your gut that your parents are in a car accident, you believe it is really true, even though they told you they might run a little late.
What is Emotional Reasoning?
They are late, so they must have been in an accident.
What is Thinking the Worst?
Yelling, Rolling my eyes, and Ignoring
What is the action part of the triangle?
You think that a girl in your class definitely does not like you, even though you’ve never talked to her.
What is Mind Reading?
You think that there is a 90% chance that your plane is going to crash (when the real chance is more like 0.000013%)
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
We have a thought, that gives us a feeling, that makes us act in a certain way.