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Yakk · 06-02-2004, 11:38 AM

ALL OR NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance contains anything good, you see yourself as a total success.

OVERGENERALIZATION: You see a single positive event as a never-ending pattern of victory.

MENTAL FILTER: You pick out a single positive detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of reality becomes whitewashed, like the drop of bleach that lightens the entire basket of laundry.

DISQUALIFYING THE NEGATIVE: You reject negative experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a positive belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: You make a positive interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion.
A. MIND READING: You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting positively to you, and you don't bother to check this out.
B. THE FORTUNETELLER ERROR: You can anticipate that things will turn out well, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.

MAGNIFICATION (CATASTROPHIZING) OR MINIMIZATION: You exaggerate the importance of things (such as your achievement or someone else's goof-up), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own imperfections or the other person's desirable qualities). This is also called "the binocular trick."

EMOTIONAL REASONING: You assume that your positive emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: "I feel it, therefore it must be true."

LABELING AND MISLABELING: This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your success, you attach a positive label to yourself: For example, "I'm a winner." When someone else's behavior rubs you the right way, you attach a positive label to him. Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.

PERSONALIZATION: You see yourself as the cause of some positive external event, which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.

Humbug, can't figure out how to reword the "should" error.

Then again, people with the above (reversed) errors in judgement are funny. The effects on your actual compitence is probably worse...

06-02-2004, 11:38 AM	#7 (permalink)
Yakk Wehret Den Anfängen! Location: Ontario, Canada	Re: Cognitive Distortions ALL OR NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance contains anything good, you see yourself as a total success. OVERGENERALIZATION: You see a single positive event as a never-ending pattern of victory. MENTAL FILTER: You pick out a single positive detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of reality becomes whitewashed, like the drop of bleach that lightens the entire basket of laundry. DISQUALIFYING THE NEGATIVE: You reject negative experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a positive belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: You make a positive interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. A. MIND READING: You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting positively to you, and you don't bother to check this out. B. THE FORTUNETELLER ERROR: You can anticipate that things will turn out well, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact. MAGNIFICATION (CATASTROPHIZING) OR MINIMIZATION: You exaggerate the importance of things (such as your achievement or someone else's goof-up), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own imperfections or the other person's desirable qualities). This is also called "the binocular trick." EMOTIONAL REASONING: You assume that your positive emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: "I feel it, therefore it must be true." LABELING AND MISLABELING: This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your success, you attach a positive label to yourself: For example, "I'm a winner." When someone else's behavior rubs you the right way, you attach a positive label to him. Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded. PERSONALIZATION: You see yourself as the cause of some positive external event, which in fact you were not primarily responsible for. Humbug, can't figure out how to reword the "should" error. Then again, people with the above (reversed) errors in judgement are funny. The effects on your actual compitence is probably worse... __________________ Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.