Describe and provide examples of three of the cognitive distortions that Aaron Beck suggests are central to feelings of depression or anxiety.?
What will be an ideal response?
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?All-or-nothing thinking: Seeing each event as completely good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure
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Arbitrary inference: Concluding that something negative will happen or is happening even though there is no evidence to support it
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Disqualifying the positive: Rejecting positive experiences
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Emotional reasoning: Assuming that negative emotions are accurate without questioning them
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Labeling: Placing a negative, global label on a person or situation
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Magnification and minimization: Overestimating the importance of negative events and underestimating the impact of positive events
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Overgeneralization: Applying a negative conclusion of one event to other unrelated events and areas of one’s life
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Personalization: Attributing negative events to oneself without reason
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Selective abstraction: Focusing on a single, irrelevant, negative aspect of a situation while ignoring more relevant and important aspects of the situation
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