My Anti-Thinking Habit Is Strategic Ambivalence

Only thinking about how things should be, rather than appreciating and dealing with how things are in the present are known as “should” statements. If the word “should” appears in a statement regarding oneself, it is generally a “should statement”. “Labeling and mislabeling” causes harsh self-labels to the patient and to those around them. The final common pattern of faulty thinking is personalization. This had been the most profound trouble for this student. “Personalization” causes us to blame ourselves for things that we have no control over. An example would be taking the blame for someone else’s anger.

However, as the thoughts go circles, procrastinations can also have a huge influence on me. Procrastinations will make my quality of homework decrease and hamper the learning efficiency.

“Self-defeating behaviour is the idea that sometimes people knowingly do things that will cause them to fail or bring them trouble. It is defined as “any deliberate or intentional behaviour that has clear, definitely or probably negative effects on the self or on the self’s projects.” The concept of and theories behind why a person behaves in ways that are self-defeating is one that has been examined by many psychological approaches over time. In this essay I will define and explain self-defeating behaviours, their origins, causes and reasons for maintaining them, together with examples of such behaviours. Subsequently I will focus on two approaches to

What is cognitive dissonance? Give some examples of situations that might create dissonance in an individual. What does cognitive dissonance have to do with blocked need satisfaction? (3 points)

In correspondence with your eagerness to break your bad habit, you must remember to not rush the process. Trying to put too much of your time and energy into solving the problem may prove effective at first; however, you will soon notice yourself becoming overwhelmed with the pressure to change immediately. By breaking down the process into steps and conquering each factor contributing to procrastination piece by piece, you will find yourself reaching success more often than taking on the task as a whole

“Self-defeating behavior is the idea that sometimes people knowingly do things that will cause them to fail or bring them trouble. It is defined as “any deliberate or intentional behavior that has clear, definitely or probably negative effects on the self or on the self’s projects.” (Wikipedia: Self-Defeating Behavior) The concept of and theories behind why a person behaves in ways that are self-defeating is one that has been examined by many psychological approaches over time.

Cognitive dissonance theory has been around since the late fifties. It has inspired many psychologists to figure out the murky depths of people’s minds. The theory relates strongly to decision making, social phenomenons and mental angst. Many paradigms exist within cognitive dissonance. Two important paradigms are the Belief Disconfirmation paradigm and the Free Choice paradigm. There are several experiments that have been studied that relate to cognitive dissonance, including the boring tasks experiment. The person who coined the phrase cognitive dissonance is the famous Leon Festinger, and he studied it inside and out. Cognitive dissonance is one of the most important topics

“We, the First Presidency…of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God…” This is the opening line in The Family: A Proclamation to the World, given by former President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), Gordon B. Hinckley, in September of 1995. This is one of the main doctrines in the LDS faith. In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the legalization of gay marriage in 2015, these two ideologies, what is socially acceptable versus the standards of the LDS faith, stand contrary to one another. This contradiction causes what is known as cognitive dissonance. Many people have noted that members of the LDS faith have felt this dissonance from society, but what about those people of the LDS faith who identify as LGBT or experience same sex attraction on some level? The more we identify the two things that oppose each other, the greater the cognitive dissonance.

To use the critical thinking method, one must consider the seven thinking habits. The thinking habits are: truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, confidence in reasoning, inquisitive, and maturity of judgment. Using any of the seven critical thinking habits in the medical field you must determine which one will be useful in your work. I have chosen to use truth-seeking, open-mindedness, and maturity of judgment. I will explain here how these three will help me in my future career.

The focus of this paper is to determine how cognitive dissonance affects our decisions, and how one can reduce the impacts of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon which occurs when two cognitions are conflicting. In choosing one option over the other, people tend to question if they made the right decision. There are several strategies to resolve cognitive dissonance. Altering the conflicting cognition, altering the importance of the conflicting cognition and adding additional positive cognitions to outweigh the conflicting ones are ways to resolve cognitive dissonance. The results of these dissonance reduction strategies all typically result in a stronger attribution with the option that was chosen, and the unchosen alternative is more negatively attributed.

The patient has developed negative cognitive schemas that have culminated in social phobia. The fundamental beliefs and assumptions (schemas) the patient has fostered through his life, are negatively reinforced by his early dependency on his overprotective mother and dominant father (Wedding & Corsini, 2014, p. 239). The patient has used personalization, a cognitive distortion, which he implements using an automatic thought process to explain his feelings of inferiority and why he sees people avoiding him in public places (p. 241, 245).

Learn new ways of seeing and dealing with problems rather using alcohol as a quick fix to problems

You see, for years I have been plagued by this monster that keeps me trapped in a vicious cycle of over analyzing everything around me; playing out every possible scenario. It distracts; often causing me to seem stand-offish and aloof. It paralyzes; literally. I can recall one occasion where my family decided to dine out, and I could not even bring myself to get out of the car. I watched them that night through the front windshield, laughing and enjoying the company of one another. I ended up eating a cold soggy meal from a Styrofoam to-go box, alone at my kitchen table.

While they say college is supposed to be the time where you find yourself, and become who you really are, I find that I have still not reached that point. That’s not to say that I haven’t done all of the other important things that you’re supposed to do while you’re in college; I’ve picked a major, a minor, figured out all the best routes to class are, found a flexible job to help pay my rent, and found friends that I can for the most part rely on. The department I have lacked in the most would be finding love. But like all things, there is trial and error. For me it has been mostly error, but in hindsight I can see why.

Over thinking happens in the dead of night where the silent pierces the eardrums then suddenly one is hit with an overflowing process of thoughts of what could have been done or said during a life event. It might not even occur in the mist of dawn but while one fiddles with a pencil or while having an argumentative conversion. Overthinking is the process of asking what ifs, but it can also consist of the necessity of having a voice in society. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah distinguishes that “the tongue never rest. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut.” I’m a young female in high school, the one that is acknowledged as a shy or unimportant due to the color of my skin, to my age, to my gender and my social status. All these factors