Week 10: The Chimp Paradox Flashcards
What is our chimp?
The emotional bit of our brain that is irrational but wants to keep us alive.
What are some characteristics of our chimps?
- jump to conclusions
- can be paranoid
- can be badly behaved
- gets things out of perspective
- bases everything on emotion
What are the different causes of stress?
- time stress
- anticipatory stress
- situational stress
- encounter stress
What does CUSS stand for?
- concern
- uncomfortable
- unsafe
- stop
What does PACE stand for?
- probe
- alert
- challenge
- emergency action
What are automatic thoughts?
- dichotomous
- overgeneralisation
- mental filter
- discounting the positive
- jumping to conclusions
- magnification and minimisation
- emotional reasoning
- should statements
- labelling
- personalisation
Define dichotomous thinking
Seeing things in black and white categories
Define over-generalisation
Seeing a single negative event as a never ending pattern of defeat
Define mental filter
Picking out a single negative detail and dwelling on it exclusively so that your vision of reality becomes darkened
Define discounting the positive
Rejecting the positive experiences by insisting they dont count
Define jumping to conclusions
Making a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts to support your conclusion
Define magnification & minimisation
Exaggerating the importance of things or inappropriately shrinking things until they appear tiny
Define emotional reasoning
Assuming your negative emotions reflect the way things really are
Define should statements
Trying to motivate yourself with should and shouldn’t , as if you had to be punished before you could be expected to do anything
Define labelling
An extreme form of over generalisation, instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself
