Cognitive Distortions Flashcards
What is all or nothing thinking?
You see things in black and white categories. If
your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
________________ is described as seeing a single negative event as a never-ending
pattern of defeat
Overgeneralization
_______ _______ is described as picking out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively
so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors
the entire beaker of water
Mental Filter
What is ‘disqualifying the positive’?
Rejecting positive experiences by insisting they ‘don’t count’ thus maintaining a negative belief that is contraindicated by your everyday life
_______ ______ is described as arbitrarily concluding that someone is reacting negatively
to you, and you don’t bother to check this out.
Mind Reading
What is meant by having a ‘fortune teller error’?
You anticipate that things will turn out badly, and
you feel convinced that your prediction is an already established fact.
__________ (magnification/minimization) is described as exaggerating the importance of things, such as your own goof-ups or acomplishments
Magnification
__________ (magnification/minimization) is described as inappropriately shrinking things until they appear tiny, also referred to as the “binocular trick”
Minimization
What is ‘emotional reasoning’?
You assume that your negative emotions necessarily
reflect the way things really are
What are ‘should statements’?
You try to motivate yourself with should’s and shouldnt’s, as if you had to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.
_________ is described as seeing yourself as the cause of some negative event which in fact you were not primarily responsible for
Personalization
