8. Beck: levels of cognition Flashcards
Negative automatic thoughts
- Closer to the surface than other levels of cognition
- usually specific to an event
-relatively easy to change
Dysfunctional assumptions
- More general the negative thought
- Feed from automatic thoughts
- more difficult to access and change
Core beliefs
- very general and affect individual at identity level
- very difficult to access and change
Types of cognitive distortions:
The fortune teller
Person wants to predict what will happen to protect themselves
Types of cognitive distortions:
Emotional reasoning
What i feel is due to something always and i will always trust my instinct
Types of cognitive distortions:
Mind reading
Believing with conviction that you know what others are thinking of you
Types of cognitive distortions:
The awfulizing
Every minor inconvenience can be absolutely awful
Types of cognitive distortions:
The must and should
Self-obligations or impositions
Types of cognitive distortions:
The black and white
everything of nothing
Types of cognitive distortions:
Arbitrary inference
drawing conclusions based on insufficient evidence
Types of cognitive distortions:
Disqualification of the positive
Refuse positive experiences because they are irrelevant
Types of cognitive distortions:
Dichotomous thinking
They are all good or bad, black or white
Types of cognitive distortions:
Personalization
Assuming personal attributions for negative and uncontrollable events (self or others)
Types of cognitive distortions:
Selective abstraction
Focusing on a single aspect of a situation and ignoring others
Types of cognitive distortions:
Overgeneralization
Drawing broad negative conclusions based in a single insignificant event.
