Understanding Cognitive Distortions
A worksheet for Grade 12 Social Studies students to identify and analyze common cognitive distortions and their impact on thoughts and behaviors.
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Understanding Cognitive Distortions
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Read each question carefully and provide thoughtful answers. This worksheet explores common cognitive distortions and their effects.
1. Which cognitive distortion involves focusing solely on the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive?
Catastrophizing
Mental Filter
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Overgeneralization
2. Believing that because one negative event occurred, all future events will also be negative, is an example of:
Personalization
Discounting the Positive
Overgeneralization
Mind Reading
3. When someone assumes they know what others are thinking without any evidence, they are engaging in .
4. The cognitive distortion where you magnify the importance of negative events and minimize the importance of positive events is called .
5. 'Should' statements, where one focuses on how things 'should' or 'ought' to be rather than what they are, are a form of cognitive distortion.
True
False
6. Cognitive distortions are always conscious and easily identified by the individual experiencing them.
True
False
7. Describe a real-life scenario where 'labeling' could negatively impact an individual's self-perception.
8. Explain how identifying and challenging cognitive distortions can contribute to improved mental well-being.
Match each cognitive distortion with its definition.
9. Personalization
a. Viewing events in only two categories: good or bad, success or failure.
10. All-or-Nothing Thinking
b. Taking responsibility for events that are not within one's control.
11. Emotional Reasoning
c. Believing that one's emotions reflect reality.
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