Understanding Cognitive Distortions
This worksheet helps Grade 11 students identify and challenge common cognitive distortions, promoting healthier thought patterns and emotional well-being.
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Understanding Cognitive Distortions
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet explores common cognitive distortions and how they impact our thoughts and feelings.
1. Which cognitive distortion involves exaggerating the negative aspects of a situation while minimizing the positive?
Catastrophizing
Magnification and Minimization
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Overgeneralization
2. Believing that because one negative event occurred, a whole string of negative events will follow, is an example of:
Mind Reading
Personalization
Filtering
Catastrophizing
1. Cognitive distortions are always conscious and intentional thought patterns.
True
False
2. Labeling is a cognitive distortion where you attach a global, negative label to yourself or others.
True
False
1. thinking is viewing situations in only two categories, such as good/bad or success/failure.
2. When you assume you know what others are thinking without sufficient evidence, you are engaging in .
3. The cognitive distortion where you take responsibility for events that are not entirely your fault is called .
Match each cognitive distortion on the left with its description on the right.
1. Emotional Reasoning
a. Believing that if you feel something, it must be true.
2. Should Statements
b. Having rigid rules about how you or others should behave.
3. Overgeneralization
c. Drawing a sweeping conclusion based on a single event.
1. Describe a time you might have experienced 'All-or-Nothing Thinking' and how it affected your feelings.
2. Explain how identifying cognitive distortions can be beneficial for mental well-being.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
1. When you focus only on the negative details of a situation and ignore the positive, you are engaging in .
2. Assuming that you know what another person is thinking without any actual evidence is a form of .