Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive = related to thinking

Distortion = changing something and making it wrong​

Multiple Choice

What does 'cognitive' mean?

• Related to thinking

• Related to feeling

• Changing something and making it wrong

• Changing something and making it correct

Multiple Choice

What does 'distortion' mean?

• Related to thinking

• Related to feeling

• Changing something and making it wrong

• Changing something and making it correct

Multiple Choice

What do you think 'cognitive distortion' mean?

• Way of thinking in which we wrongly change the facts

• Way of thinking correctly

He used to work with people and was the first one to notice these cognitive distortions.

This is Aaron Beck

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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

Black or White thinking

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!

Jumping to conclusions:

Mind reading

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

Jumping to conclusions:

Fortune telling

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.