How brilliant are you at spotting thinking errors?
The following quiz is designed to see whether you can use your knowledge to identify which common thinking errors are being committed in these examples. Remember, you are looking for cases of the following:
- catastrophising
- polarised ‘black and white’ thinking
- rigid thinking
- excessive self-blame
- unrealistic blame of others
- filtering
- magnifying
- mind reading
- emotive language.
Be aware that some of these thinking errors are not mutually exclusive and you may find more than one in the same example. Also, as you run through the list try to speculate about the emotions that might be associated with the type of thoughts and behaviours described. (The answers are on page 57.)
- A man is invited to a ...
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