PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personalization, Sympathetic Nervous System, Adrenal Medulla
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Polarized thinking: all or nothing thinking -- perfect or absolutely horrible -- extreme (borderline) -- fail to recognize other people to have this same problem -- everyone else is happy except them. Overgeneralization: judging an entire thing based on one incident -- one specific thing and making a sweeping judgement -- it was always be this way. Magnification/minimization: magnifies and exaggerates his/her weaknesses/flaws -- all they think about -- minimize and overlook strengths and good qualities. Personalization: blames themselves for something they have nothing to do with -- ex. abusive relationships. Filtering: a filter allowed all positive things to drain out and keeps all negative ones in. Catastrophizing: person always sees a negative reaction about to happen -- damine effect. These people are not very social -- friends with one or two people -- downers -- too negative to be around. Stress: the reaction to a real or perceived threat or challenge. Stress is a choice -- we cause it.
