CBT: Test your Knowledge
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Pre and Post Test
1. If performance falls short of perfect you are total failure.
a. Emotional reasoning
b. Magnification
c. All or nothing thinking
d. Personalization
2. Single negative events as never-ending patterns of defeat.
a. Overgeneralization
b. Labeling and mislabeling
c. Emotional reasoning
d. Disqualifying the positive
3. Pick out single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that vision of all reality becomes darkened.
a. All or nothing thinking
b. Mental filter
c. Should statement
d. Jumping to conclusions
4. Reject positive experiences insisting they don’t count. In this way maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
a. Emotional reasoning
b. Magnification
c. Labeling and mislabeling
d. Disqualifying the positive
5. Make a negative interpretation even though no definite facts convincingly support conclusion.
a. Personalization
b. All or nothing thinking
c. Emotional reasoning
d. Jumping to conclusions
6. Exaggerated the importance of things (your own goof up or someone else’s achievements or inappropriately think things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or the other person imperfections).
a. Magnification
b. Mental filter
c. Personalization
d. Should statement
7. Assume your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way thing really are. “I feel it, therefore it must be true.”
a. Disqualifying the positive
b. Emotional reasoning
c. All or nothing thinking
d. Overgeneralization
8. Try to motivate should and shouldn’t as if you had been whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything. “Musts” and Oughts” are also offenders. Emotional consequence is guilt. When you direct statements towards others you feel frustrated.
a. Personalization
b. Labeling and mislabeling
c. Should statement
d. Jumping to conclusions
9. Extreme forms of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error you attached a negative label to yourself “I’m a loser “When someone else behavior rubs you the wrong way you attach negative label to him, he’s a louse “. Mislabeling involves and event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.
a. All or nothing thinking
b. Disqualifying the positive
c. Labeling and mislabeling
d. Personalization
10. You see yourself as the cause of some negative event, which in fact you were not.
a. Magnification
b. Emotional reasoning
c. Labeling and mislabeling
d. Personalization
Score: ____________________
answers: 1c, 2a, 3b, 4d, 5d, 6a, 7b, 8c, 9c, 10d