Maslow's, Cognitive distortions

people categorize everything as either ALL good or ALL bad

• black and white thinking

• jumping to conclusions

• catastrophizing

• always being right

people assume they know what other people are thinking and why they behave as they do

• jumping to conclusions

• black and white thinking

• catastrophizing

• always being right

every event- even something small- has a huge and negative consequence

• catastrophizing

• fallacy of change

• black and white thinking

• control fallacies

constantly trying to prove their attitudes and behaviors are correct

• always being right

• fallacy of change

• emotional reasoning

• control fallacies

Believing they can pressure or persuade others to change

• fallacy of change

• emotional reasoning

• control fallacies

• black and white thinking

whatever they feel at the moment is a permanent condition

• emotional reasoning

• control fallacies

• black and white thinking

• jumping to conclusions

always playing victim; they don't see their role in creating situations

• control fallacies

• jumping to conclusions

• always being right

• catastrophizing

Click the tier on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that "self-actualization" is on.

Click the tier on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that "esteem" is on.

Click the tier on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that "love and acceptance" is on.