Understanding Thought Distortions
A Grade 9 social studies worksheet to help students identify and challenge common thought distortions that affect their emotional well-being and decision-making.
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Understanding Thought Distortions
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Read each question carefully and provide thoughtful answers. This worksheet is designed to help you understand common thought distortions and how to challenge them.
1. Which thought distortion involves expecting only negative outcomes and dwelling on the worst-case scenario?
Catastrophizing
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Mind Reading
Overgeneralization
2. Believing that you know what others are thinking about you, often negatively, is an example of which thought distortion?
Personalization
Emotional Reasoning
Mind Reading
Should Statements
3. When you focus solely on the negative aspects of a situation and ignore the positive, you are engaging in .
4. The thought distortion where you take sole responsibility for negative events, even when you are not primarily responsible, is called .
5. Labeling yourself or others with extreme, negative terms (e.g., "I'm a complete failure") is an example of .
6. All-or-Nothing Thinking allows for shades of grey and recognizes that situations are rarely entirely good or entirely bad.
True
False
7. Emotional Reasoning means that because you feel something strongly, it must be true.
True
False
8. Describe a time you or someone you know experienced 'Catastrophizing'. How might this thought have been challenged?
9. Explain the difference between 'Mind Reading' and 'Fortune Telling' in your own words.