Thoughts, Feelings

Question 1

What is processed in the brain starts with your senses. All thoughts are either formed or triggered by an external stimulus.

Answer 1

External stimuli

Question 2

How you think about your problems will affect your emotions either positively or negatively.

Answer 2

Thoughts

Question 3

These are conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed toward a specific object.

Answer 3

Emotions

Question 4

These are the body’s responses to emotions.

Answer 4

Behavior

Question 5

The following is a list of characteristics that these thoughts have in common:

Answer 5

-They spring to mind without any effort from you.
-They are easy to believe.
-They are often not true.
-They can be difficult to stop.
-They are unhelpful.
-They keep you anxious and make it difficult to change.

Question 6

Styles of distorted thinking

Answer 6

Generalizing the specific
Catastrophizing
Polarizing thinking
Magnification and filtering
Mind reading
Personalization
Rigid thinking
Blaming
Self-blame
Control fallacies

Question 7

You come up with a conclusion based on
a single incident.

Answer 7

Generalizing the specific

Question 8

You expect disaster. All things will most certainly go wrong and you will not be able to cope.

Answer 8

Catastrophizing

Question 9

You have an ‘All or
Nothing Thinking’
and there is no
middle ground.

Answer 9

Polarizing thinking

Question 10

You assume what people are thinking
and why they act the
way they do.

Answer 10

Mind reading

Question 11

Everything that
people do or say is
some kind of reaction
to you.

Answer 11

Personalization

Question 12

The only right person is yourself. You continually attempt to prove that your own opinions and actions are correct.

Answer 12

Rigid thinking

Question 13

Other people will are always at fault for our problems.

Answer 13

Blaming

Question 14

You feel responsible for all the pain and
happiness of everyone around you.

Answer 14

Self-blame

Question 15

Either you see yourself as a helpless victim, controlled by external circumstances or you feel over-responsible for the pain and/or happiness of others.

Answer 15

Control fallacies

Question 16

You believe that what you feel must be true. No checking of facts: you just run with your emotions.

Answer 16

Emotional reasoning

Question 17

You have a long list of rules about how you and other people should act.

Answer 17

Shoulds

Question 18

You feel bitter when you are not recognized and rewarded for the sacrifices you have made.

Answer 18

Heaven’s reward fallacy