Discuss why/how ordinary people may "fall into" such beliefs. What circumstances could contribute to irrational beliefs? What are some methods to help yourself or someone else dispel these types of beliefs? Feel free to give your opinion on any and all options.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
5. Cognitive Errors
Cognitive errors, errors in logical reasoning such as an irrational thought, can disrupt the life of the most ordinary person. Read the entry on page 117 in our text and respond to question number 1 in 75-100 words.
Discuss why/how ordinary people may "fall into" such beliefs. What circumstances could contribute to irrational beliefs? What are some methods to help yourself or someone else dispel these types of beliefs? Feel free to give your opinion on any and all options.
Discuss why/how ordinary people may "fall into" such beliefs. What circumstances could contribute to irrational beliefs? What are some methods to help yourself or someone else dispel these types of beliefs? Feel free to give your opinion on any and all options.
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Angela N.
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I think beliefs can sometimes cause irrational behaviors. Some people may believe aliens exsist, money can buy love, home is where the heart is, UFO's exsist there are so many other things I can list however I wont. But who can say what is rational or irrational beliefs? I think society has peoples heads so confussed we often dont really know what to believe.I think that this discussion topic was a bit dificult to decifer. Yet I think some of the examples I listed relate to life since some people may go thriough life thinking these things could really happen and yet they dont.
Sasy C.
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Cognitive errors contribute to irrational beliefs by hindering a person's take on reality. If cognitive errors are the basis for irrational thoughts and behaviors, then it must be under a false sense of reality and what is really taking place in a person's life. They are not seeing things from a rational, constructive and ethical standpoint. It causes a person to have over the top thoughts that seem to range from one extreme to the other. If a person has cognitive errors about themselves, they have a false sense of who they really are and can be.
Some beliefs I believe people hold are:
If a person drinks or does drugs in there past they must be a bad person.
Once a criminal always a criminal.
Men sleep around they are gods, but if women sleep around they are sluts.
If a woman is divorced, she is damaged goods.
If a child acts up in school, they are going to group up to be hoodlums.
Ruth.M.
ReplyDeleteI think Irrational Beliefs and Depression completley play off errors in logical thinking. I beleive that he or she feels in inadeqaute and abandoned when making these conclusions. I find my self wondering how poeple come up with these insaine ideas. Some ideas that I see poeple having are:
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
Once a criminal, always a criminal.
I have a right to be paraniod, I was in a seroius accident.
If a child is bad at home, they will grow up to be problem children.
A colococky baby, is never a good baby.
Like i said some of things I hear are crazy and I can prove some of things different but then I find my self wondering anyways "Is there really a right or wrong answer. Therefore, Im not thereapist lets leave it to the docters.
Amy Steinbrecher
ReplyDeletePhil 250-951
Cognitive errors contribute to irrational beliefs by giving a person a false sense of who they really are. People who tend to have these cognitive errors about themselves find themselves depressed and not go as far as they could in life.
Some beliefs I believe people hold are:
Once a druggy, always a druggy.
Once a cheat, always a cheat.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Children who act up in school must come from bad parents.
Children from divorced parents won’t do as well in life.
Women from previous relationships, or marriage, are damaged goods.
Single women with children will have a hard time finding a good man.
I think these ways of thinking are crazy and people who think this way are very closed minded and will never find true happiness.
Cognitive errors contribute to irrational beliefs. One irrational belief is that women are more valuable than men. No woman has ever been drafted in to the service, sent to die in some foriegn country for some sencless cause (Vietnam).
ReplyDeleteThe trueth is women are not more valueable than men.
Another irrational belief that I heard about is that single men are no good.
I do believe that all irration thought leads to depression. People believe in a all-powerful god. That is an irrational belief.
Jenny B
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"Because something once strogly affected my life, it will indefinitely affect my life." This is something that I have seen with a majority of my friends, including myself. It is very difficult and sometimes even seem close to impossible to get over bad things that have happened in your life, especially ones that were beyond your control. Although personally I have experienced that you can get beyond the past and make yourself a better person, you can choose not to allow the negitive to affect your life. You are the only person that can turn your negitives into poitives. Afterall, noone would appreciate the sunshine if there were no rain.
Sue S.
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It is very difficult to find the good in bad situations. It is much easier to use confirmation bias and assume that nothing good will happen from this event. We have all experienced a time or event that caused us to think irrationally. It is easy to get drawn in to depression by convincing yourself that things will never get better and line up all the evidence of all the bad things in your life. In order to get past these irrational beliefs, I believe it is important to have friends and family to discuss the situations with and point out good things and the positive aspects of one's life and situation. Keeping everything bottled up inside doesn't solve the problem, it only makes it worse.
Semika Bradshaw
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Many times depression hits after some sort of tragedy. Other times, some people just cannot handle everyday life. For some people, the idea of going through the day without being medicated is scary. They feel that they need to be medicated throughout the day just to push themselve foreward. This pertains to the people of the world who think they have every illness known to man. That's my opinion at least. This is why so many people in the world are addicted to drugs. Doctors are willing to give out prescriptions to just about anyone. All you have to say is "I'm depressed" and they say "Okay, take some Zoloft. All better!"
On the other hand, there are genuine people who are depressed. These people have expierenced some sort of tragedy that has just about pushed them over the edge of being able to handle life.
Amy Schafer
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It is easy for a person that has been through some emotional or physical stress to take on the thinking of a depressed person. Feeling like the world will end if something doesn’t happen or that you can’t go on are easily adapted. The best way to get through this type of thinking is to find someone you trust, that will listen to you and express what you’re feeling. Opening up to someone with a nonjudgmental mind may be just what you need to get some of the stress off of our chest
I believe that cognitive errors contribute to irrational beliefs by allowing a person to adopt a false sense of who they really are. People with many irrational beliefs use it at first as a reason to not move forward in their lives but then it turns into a crutch or a excuse. Like people that won’t get back into a relationship because their trust was broken so they live by “Once a liar, always a liar”, and that train themselves to except that it, live by it, and learn to believe it till it is so imbedded that it is extremely hard to change.
ReplyDeleteDepression, anger, feelings of abandonment, and inadequacy are all factors that may lead to irrational thoughts and or beliefs. Irrational thoughts or beliefs can come from any one of these factors or any combinations of these factors. The acting out of these thoughts or beliefs can be known as cognitive errors. A couple of examples of cognitive errors include, a person who has loved someone in the past without that other person loving them in return may believe that there will be no one who will ever be able to love them, or a person who believes that money will buy them happiness, yet is one of less fortune may believe they will never be happy. Both of these examples show irrational thoughts of beliefs one may have in these types of situations, they are considered to be irrational because if you think about it, even if you do not have a partner at that moment in time, there are many other people out there that still love you, people including family members, children, friends, or maybe even a pet (women’s/men’s best friends). A person who believes that money will make you happy can be considered irrational because if you stop to think about it there are many people in the world today who have so much money they don’t know what to do with it, yet still find themselves unhappy (i.e. celebrity rehab :)).
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