Psychology Flashcards
Mental Health
condition of an individual regarding their emotional, social and psychological
well-being
Depression
mood disorder which causes constant feelings of sadness and loss of interest
Anxiety
nervous disorder characterized by excessive uneasiness and apprehension
Bipolar Disorder
Brain disorder which causes unusual shifts in mood
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
brain disorder which is associated with an ongoing pattern of inattention or hyperactivity-impulsivity
Autism Spectrum Disorder
brain disorders associated with difficulties in social interaction, communication, and repetative behaviors
Schizophrenia
mental disorders characterized by faulty perceptions, inappropriate actions and feeling and withdrawal from reality
Personality Disorder
mental health problems which cause an individual to have rigid and unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving
Maladaptive Behaviors
behavior which inhibit an individual’s ability to adapt to a particular situatio
Stigma
set of negative and often unfair beliefs which a society has about something
Psychotherapy
therapeutic treatment of mental illness provided by a trained mental health professional
Bias
Tendency to favor one person, group thing or point of view over another
Filtering
The way a person can ignore all of the positive and good things in life to focus solely on the negative.
Polarized thinking /Black-and-white thinking
An all-or-nothing thinking, with no room for complexity of nuance-everything’s either black or white, never shades of grey
Overgeneralization
Taking a single incident or point in time and using it as the sole piece of evidence for a broach conclusion
Jumping to conclusions
A distortion involving faulty reasoning in how one makes conclusions though a tendency to be sure of something without any evidence at all.
Catastrophizing / Magnifying or Minimizing
Expecting that the worst will happen or has happened, based on an incident that is nowhere near as catastrophic as it is made out to be.
Personalization
A distortion where an individual believes that everything they do has an impact on external events or other people, no matter how irrational that may be.
Control fallacies
Feeling like everything that happens to you is either a result of purely external forces or entirely due to your own actions.
Fallacy of fairness
Belief in extreme fairness despite life not being fair.
Blaming
A method of assigning responsibility to other when something goes wrong.
“Shoulds”
Implicit or explicit rules we have about how we and other should behave. When others break our rules, we are upset. When we break our own rules, we feel guilty.
Emotional reasoning
Reasoning based on your emotions. Ex. “I feel it, therefore it must be true”
Fallacy of change
Expecting other people to change as it suits us.
Global labeling / mislabeling
An extreme form of generalization in which we generalize one or two instance of qualities into a global judgement.
Always being right
Distortion making us thinking we must always be write.
Heaven’s Reward Fallecy
Belief that any sacrifice or self-denial will pay off.
Journalling
A Technique that allows one to gather one’s mood and thoughts.
Unraveling cognitive distortions
Identifying the cognitive distortions you are dealing with.
Cognitive restuctuting
