negative automatic thoughts Flashcards
Dichotomous thinking
The tendency to see things as black and white rather than shades of grey
Personalisation
Incorrectly assuming that things happen due to us
Overgeneralisation
Coming to a general conclusion based on a single piece of evidence
Arbitrary inference
Drawing of an unjustified conclusion
Selective abstraction
Concentrating on the negative while ignoring the positives
Catastrophising
Expecting disaster from relatively trivial events
Filtering
Selecting out only negative aspects of a situation and leaving out the positive
Control Fallacies
Believing we are responsible for everything (internal control fallacy) or nothing (external control fallacy)
Fallacy of Fairness
Believing that life is fair
Blaming
Holding other responsible for our distress
Shoulds
Preconceived rules we believe (often incorrect) which makes us angry when others don’t obey them
Magnification
A tendency to exaggerate the importance of negative information or experiences, while trivialising or reducing the significance of positive information or experiences
Minimisation
An undervaluation of positive attributes
Emotional Reasoning
Believing what we feel must be true
Fallacy of Change
Expecting others to change just because it suits us
