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COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. SINGLE NEGATIVE EVENT VERSUS PATTERN
  2. MENTAL FILTER
  3. NEGATIVE INTERPRETATION WITHOUT DEFINITE FACTS
  4. LABELING
  5. ANTICIPATE THINGS WILL TURN OUT BADLY
  6. BLACK AND WHITE CATEGORIES
  7. INAPPROPRIATELY SHRINK THINGS UNTIL THEY APPEAR TINY
  8. OVERGENERALIZATION
  9. ANTICIPATE THINGS WILL TURN OUT BADLY
  10. EMOTIONAL REASONING
  11. "SHOULD" STATEMENTS
  12. DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE
  13. MAGNIFICATION/MINIMIZATION
  14. PERSONALIZATION
  15. MUSTS/OUGHTS
  16. MISLABELING
  17. ARBITRARILY CONCLUDE SOMEBODY IS REACTING NEGATIVELY TO YOU
  18. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
  19. ALL OR NOTHING THINKING
  20. THE FORTUNETELLER ERROR
  21. MIND READING
  22. CATASTROPHIZING
  23. EXAGERATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THINGS
  24. ASSUME NEGATIVE EMOTIONS ARE FACT