BACKGROUND Deterministic thinking is one of the major cognitive distortions. This type of thinking ignores any possibility in making a conclusion about events. Any consequence of an event may be thought as: 2×2= 4. Equality is a dominant factor among all conclusions of this kind of distortion. Distortion emerges in cognitive rigidity in the mind and could be the source of all distortions. Cogni...

Individuals who become pregnant out-of-wedlock require special attention because previous studies have shown that this group is prone to depression and cognitive distortion, which can an impact on their psychological life development. Therefore, article discusses the process of development, validation, reliability testing behavioral module (<em>modul kognitif tingkah laku</em>/MKT) ...

Preventing the initiation of cigarette smoking is a core concern for adolescents? health in schools. Sufficient evidence has shown that one?s behavior susceptible to misperception about status proximate peers. However, cognitive associates remain largely uncharted. This study examines how distortion, which represents error information processing, with friends? status. The surveyed 334 dyads col...

The authors consider evidence concerning accuracy and distortion in children's recollections within the broader context of recent research on memory that has used the methods and conceptual framework of cognitive neuroscience. They focus on 3 phenomena—source amnesia, confabulation, and false recognition—that have been observed in young children and in adults who have sustained damage to the fr...