Managing Abnormal Mood

Question 1

What is overgeneralising

Answer 1

rules from isolated incidents then applied in all cases

Question 2

What is dichotomous thinking

Answer 2

all or nothing, black and white thinking

Question 3

Selective abstraction

Answer 3

focus on one -ve detail; colours entire experience

Question 4

personalisation

Answer 4

relate external events to self with little or no cause

Question 5

minimisation or magnificiation

Answer 5

overestimate magnitude of undesirable evens (or opposite)

Question 6

Arbitrary evidence

Answer 6

draw a conclusion in context of no evidence or contrary evidence

Question 7

emotional reasoning

Answer 7

I feel bad =therefore I am bad

I feel guilty= I am guilty