Understanding Thought Distortions
This worksheet helps 7th-grade students identify common thought distortions and understand their impact on feelings and behavior.
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Understanding Thought Distortions
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Read each question carefully and provide your best answer. This worksheet will help you learn about common thought distortions and how they can affect your life.
1. Which of the following best describes a 'thought distortion'?
A way of thinking that is always positive and helpful.
An irrational or biased way of thinking that can negatively impact feelings and actions.
A scientific method for solving problems.
A technique for improving memory.
2. Thinking that if you didn't get an A on a test, you are a complete failure, is an example of which thought distortion?
Mind Reading
Catastrophizing
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Overgeneralization
3. When you make a broad conclusion based on a single event, you are engaging in .
4. The thought distortion where you assume you know what others are thinking without any evidence is called .
5. Explain how 'Catastrophizing' can affect a student's performance in school.
6. 'Personalization' is when you take responsibility for events that are not your fault.
True
False
Match each thought distortion with its description.
7. Emotional Reasoning
a. You focus only on the negative aspects of a situation.
8. Filtering
b. You believe something is true because you feel it strongly.
9. Should Statements
c. You have rigid rules about how you and others should behave.
10. Look at the image of the human brain. How do you think our brains can sometimes create thought distortions?
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