Cognitive Distortions
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Radhika Chandrasekaran
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Cognitive = related to thinking
Distortion = changing something and making it wrong
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Multiple Choice
What does 'cognitive' mean?
Related to thinking
Related to feeling
Changing something and making it wrong
Changing something and making it correct
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Multiple Choice
What does 'distortion' mean?
Related to thinking
Related to feeling
Changing something and making it wrong
Changing something and making it correct
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Multiple Choice
What do you think 'cognitive distortion' mean?
Way of thinking in which we wrongly change the facts
Way of thinking correctly
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He used to work with people and was the first one to notice these cognitive distortions.
This is Aaron Beck
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Poll
Facts about cognitive distortions
Everyone does it
It makes us less happy, more worried and more anxious
If we learn about it, we can catch it and stop it
Catching it makes us better thinkers
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People and situations are always both somewhat good and somewhat bad. If we look at only the good or only the bad - we make the distortion of black or white thinking. We are not able to see both sides (the grays).
Russia is a bad country!
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Mind reading is when we assume what someone else is thinking without actually having any evidence for it.
One person in the audience was yawning. My presentation must have been terrible
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Fortune telling is when we make predictions about what will happen in the future without enough evidence for it.
I don't want to try out for the basketball team because I'm not going to make it anyway.
Cognitive = related to thinking
Distortion = changing something and making it wrong
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