Cognitive Distortions Worksheet

Cognitive Distortions Worksheet Name: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Read Chapter 3 in the course textbook. Complete the table below using the information from the textbook. Choose a total of 5 cognitive distortions. GCU style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. An example is provided below in red. Definition of Cognitive Distortion Selected Cognitive Distortion Always Being Right 1.Global Labeling It is impossible to be wrong. When you judge something or someone based off one or two particular encounters and you Please respond to the prompts below (a,b,c,d) for each cognitive distortion you choose. Each response should be 150-200 words. a) Provide an example of a cognitive distortion from your personal life. b) How did the cognitive distortion affect your critical thinking? c) How could you manage the emotions associated with this cognitive distortion in the future? d) How will you avoid using this cognitive distortion in the persuasive essay you are writing for this class? a) My favorite baseball team is the best of all time, and no one could tell me otherwise. I did not do any research to support this claim, but I just know my favorite baseball team is the best. b) I am so caught up in being right that I am unable to comprehend the actual statistics about other baseball teams. If someone tries to argue with me and provide information that could prove me wrong, I will dismiss it because I want to be right. c) I should consider factual baseball statistics, and try to understand that my favorite team may not be the best simply because it is my favorite and I want to be right. d) I will make sure to consider multiple points of view and factual information in addition to what I think I know and/or what I want to be the outcome. I will support my claims with relevant scholarly research from the GCU library showing that I have considered the possibility of other arguments. a.) I had a bad experience on my job once with this individual who handled me (so I thought) kind of nasty and I immediately wrote them off as a butt whole and kept my distance. b.) This distortion caused me to avoid them for sometime as much as possible, but one day they were going through some things and the minister in me reached out and we began to talk, and we talked from that day forward and became and still are very good friends today. write them off because of it. 2.Emotional Reasoning 3.Catastrophizing 4.Overgeneralization Belief that what I feel must be the truth. It determines that what is being felt is the reflection of how things really are. Is to jump to the worst conclusion about something and therefore are doomed to fail, never succeed. An opinion is formed based a single piece of evidence or a particular incident. c.) That incident taught me to not judge a book by its cover. The persons demeanor and harsh exterior turned me off, but I had no idea what they were dealing with or going through at that time so this taught me to look at people in general with an understanding eye and not a judgmental one. d.) I will try to use this cognitive distortion in my essay by seeing the glass as a balance and not focus on it being half empty or half full. a.) When I was a little girl I thought that the things I was dealing with and going through was just the way life was supposed to be. b.) This distortion along with the immaturity of my mind had me in my own personal prison for years. I didn’t recognize or know then what the word of God meant by “As a man thinks in his heart so is he”. c.) This distortion and the word of God taught me to stop putting so much weight into where I was or what I was in, but recognize where I was headed and that things were not going to be like this always. d.) I will use this outlook on things to reason why things are the way they are and see where it can go from here. a.) This one takes me back to when I was in high school and preparing myself (or lack thereof) to go beyond it. I had no clue what I wanted to do I just knew I wanted out of my parents house. I procrastinated to the very last minute in going to my guidance counselor for assistance. b.) This distortion caused me to feel like I was never going to be anything because I had missed any opportunity to set myself up for a future outside of what I knew. c.) I have learned that procrastination had to dealt with in me, and I had to stop allowing the fear of confronting myself and others concerning the cares of my life and wellbeing had to change or I would never get anywhere or accomplish anything. I had to learn to speak up for myself. d.) One of the ways I am avoiding this cognitive distortion is by choosing not to procrastinate at all when it comes to my work, and being/staying on top of things so that I’m not swallowed up or overwhelmed by it. a.) I was raped at a young age and that experience traumatized me. b.) So as a young adult even into a portion of my marriage I had formed the opinion based on that experience that every person in my life had come to take from me and I had the mindset that this must be what God had intended my life to be like (people always taking and no one ever giving or restoring me). c.) It wasn’t until I got into my early 30’s that I started unlearning this cognitive distortion. In other words I began to do and speak and see things in a different way, a different light and I chose me over everything that had happened in my life, I chose God and take him at his word over every negative thing that was spoken over me, and my whole outlook has 5.Polarized Thinking This is when you see things black or white and there is no middle ground to even consider. changed. d.) I choose to see things from the perspective of nothing is written in stoned, meaning things can change and you can be the catalyst for the change if you leave your opinion at the door and come in with an expectancy to learn and grow as you walk through it. a.) My grandmother passed this down to me. She saw things black or white, right or wrong and there was no in between. I took that outlook on in life because that is what I was reared up to believe. b.) This way of thinking affected me in what I allowed or didn’t allow in my life. The things that were good for me I shunned and the things that were bad for me I pulled closer to me, because in my black and white world it caused the good things to look bad and the bad things to seem appropriate for me. c.) I learned that just because it didn’t seem to fit in my little polarized world that this doesn’t make it a bad things, and I also took on the cliché “to always try something that interest you once in your life”. I understand now that there is a middle ground, and I can choose to be neutral in a thing and not necessarily one way or the other. d.) Even though I have a stance in this essay I can say that researching my topic (Cloning) is causing me to see some things in a different light. So although my stance is against it, I must say I can more understand the necessity of it for future research and development of cures and that It’s not all bad work if used correctly.