CBT Questions Midterm

Front

Name the cognitive distortion: You believe you know what others are thinking, failing to consider other, more likely possibilities.

Back

Mind reading

Front

Name the cognitive distortion: You put a fixed global label on yourself or others without considering that the evidence might more reasonably lead to a less disastrous conclusion.

Back

Labeling

Front

Name of distortion expressed in this comment, “If I’m not a total success, I’m a failure.”

Back

All or nothing thinking

Front

Name of distortion expressed in this comment, “I’ll be so upset I won’t be able to function at
all"

Back

Catastrophizing

Front

Name of distortion expressed in this comment, “I know I do a number of things right at my job,
but I still feel like I am a failure.”

Back

Emotional reasoning

Front

Name of distortion expressed in this comment, “My teacher can’t do anything right, he’s
critical and insensitive and a lousy at teaching.”

Back

Tunnel vision

Front

Name the CBT technique: Daily lists of mental or written positive things the patient is doing or items she/he deserves credit for

Back

Credit list

Front

Name the CBT technique: A technique used most often to treat clients who engage in avoidance behaviors, called safety behaviors, that they feel will ward off anxiety.

Back

Exposure

Front

Name the CBT technique: A technique often used by CBT therapists to practice assertiveness and appropriate social skills

Back

Role playing

Front

Name the CBT technique: A graphic depiction used to help clients set goals or determine relative responsibility for a given outcome?

Back

PIE technique