CBT Test
3 Type of Cognitions (Beck) - Answer-Voluntary thoughts, Automatic thought, Core beliefs
Voluntary Thoughts - Answer--less stable, less influential, and most assessable
-Thoughts that a person is aware of and has control over
Automatic Thoughts - Answer-Thoughts that arise spontaneously in response to specific stimuli or
situations. They reflect the individual's appraisal of a situation rather than the situation itself.
(Judgmental)
Core Beliefs - Answer-Super stable, Incredible Influential, and not always assessable. Our deepest most
fundamental beliefs about ourselves, others, the world, and the future.
Schemas - Answer-Highly idiosyncratic blends of assumptions or models about self, others, and the
world; goals and expectations; memories and fantasies; and all previous learning. What all cognitions
are rooted in.
Cognitive therapy is - Answer-Insight-focused therapy (reflection and better understanding self) with an
emphasis on changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
Goal of Cognitive Therapy - Answer-To change the way clients think by using their automatic thoughts to
reach the core schemata (beliefs) and begin to introduce the idea of schema restructuring
, Theoretical assumptions of Cognitive therapy - Answer--People's internal communication (inner dialog,
meta cognition) is accessible to introspection, we can think about thinking.
-Clients' beliefs have highly personal meanings
-These meanings can be discovered by the client rather than being taught or interpreted by the therapist
Arbitrary inferences - Answer-Drawing a specific conclusion without supporting evidence, or even in the
face of contradictory evidence.
Selective abstraction - Answer-Focusing solely on a detail that is taken out of context, at the expense of
other information.
Overgeneralization - Answer-Abstracting a general rule from one or a few isolated incidences, and then
broadly applying the rule to other situations.
Magnification and minimization - Answer-Seeing something as far more significant or less significant
than it really is. (not always bad thing, could just be hurdle)
Catastrophic thinking - Answer-Seeing an unfortunate event as a calamitous event
Personalization - Answer-Attributing external events to oneself without evidence of a causal connection
Labeling and mislabeling - Answer-Portraying one's identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes
made in the past and allowing these labels to define one's true identity in the present.
Polarized/Dichotomous thinking - Answer-Categorizing experiences into one of two extremes such as
complete success or total failure, either/or thinking
Emotional reasoning - Answer-believing that because one feels a negative emotion, there must be a
corresponding negative external situation. Sometimes emotions are separate from events.
3 Type of Cognitions (Beck) - Answer-Voluntary thoughts, Automatic thought, Core beliefs
Voluntary Thoughts - Answer--less stable, less influential, and most assessable
-Thoughts that a person is aware of and has control over
Automatic Thoughts - Answer-Thoughts that arise spontaneously in response to specific stimuli or
situations. They reflect the individual's appraisal of a situation rather than the situation itself.
(Judgmental)
Core Beliefs - Answer-Super stable, Incredible Influential, and not always assessable. Our deepest most
fundamental beliefs about ourselves, others, the world, and the future.
Schemas - Answer-Highly idiosyncratic blends of assumptions or models about self, others, and the
world; goals and expectations; memories and fantasies; and all previous learning. What all cognitions
are rooted in.
Cognitive therapy is - Answer-Insight-focused therapy (reflection and better understanding self) with an
emphasis on changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
Goal of Cognitive Therapy - Answer-To change the way clients think by using their automatic thoughts to
reach the core schemata (beliefs) and begin to introduce the idea of schema restructuring
, Theoretical assumptions of Cognitive therapy - Answer--People's internal communication (inner dialog,
meta cognition) is accessible to introspection, we can think about thinking.
-Clients' beliefs have highly personal meanings
-These meanings can be discovered by the client rather than being taught or interpreted by the therapist
Arbitrary inferences - Answer-Drawing a specific conclusion without supporting evidence, or even in the
face of contradictory evidence.
Selective abstraction - Answer-Focusing solely on a detail that is taken out of context, at the expense of
other information.
Overgeneralization - Answer-Abstracting a general rule from one or a few isolated incidences, and then
broadly applying the rule to other situations.
Magnification and minimization - Answer-Seeing something as far more significant or less significant
than it really is. (not always bad thing, could just be hurdle)
Catastrophic thinking - Answer-Seeing an unfortunate event as a calamitous event
Personalization - Answer-Attributing external events to oneself without evidence of a causal connection
Labeling and mislabeling - Answer-Portraying one's identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes
made in the past and allowing these labels to define one's true identity in the present.
Polarized/Dichotomous thinking - Answer-Categorizing experiences into one of two extremes such as
complete success or total failure, either/or thinking
Emotional reasoning - Answer-believing that because one feels a negative emotion, there must be a
corresponding negative external situation. Sometimes emotions are separate from events.
