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For faulty reasoning, see Fallacy. A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational. Cognitive distortions are involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety. [ 1 ]
Decatastrophizing. In cognitive therapy, decatastrophizing or decatastrophization is a cognitive restructuring technique to treat cognitive distortions, such as magnification and catastrophizing, commonly seen in psychological disorders like anxiety [1] and psychosis. [2]
Jumping to conclusions is a form of cognitive distortion. Often, a person will make a negative assumption when it is not fully supported by the facts. [6] In some cases misinterpretation of what a subject has sensed, i.e., the incorrect decoding of incoming messages, can come about due to jumping to conclusions. [7]
Arbitrary inference is a classic tenet of cognitive therapy created by Aaron T. Beck in 1979. [1] He defines the act of making an arbitrary inference as the process of drawing a conclusion without sufficient evidence, or without any evidence at all. In cases of depression, Beck found that individuals may be more prone to cognitive distortions ...
Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon[ 1 ] or creeping determinism, [ 2 ] is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were. [ 3 ][ 4 ] After an event has occurred, people often believe that they could have predicted or perhaps even known with a high degree of ...
Cognitive restructuring (CR) is a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, [ 1 ] such as all-or-nothing thinking (splitting), magical thinking, overgeneralization, magnification, [ 1 ] and emotional reasoning, which are commonly associated with many mental ...
D015928. [ edit on Wikidata] Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy [ 1 ][ 2 ] that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression, PTSD and anxiety disorders. [ 3 ] Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (such as thoughts, beliefs, and ...
Not to be confused with Beck's triad (cardiology). A diagram showing Beck's cognitive triad. Beck's cognitive triad, also known as the negative triad,[1][2]is a cognitive-therapeutic view of the three key elements of a person's belief system present in depression. It was proposed by Aaron Beckin 1967.[3]