Semantic Objects Are Thinking Errors: 10-23-2024

This list of seven is based on Aaron T. Beck’s work.

1. Semantic objects engage in “selective attention” because they only pay attention to information confirming their viewpoint.
2. Semantic objects engage in “discounting” other points of view because they only give credit to their own point of view or supporting viewpoints.
3. Semantic objects engage in “dramatizing” to inflate their own importance, relevance, needs, and demands.
4. Semantic objects engage in “arbitrary inference” as a way to infer meaning by interpreting everything to support their point of view.
5. Semantic objects engage in “polarization” by framing everything as either for or against their point of view.
6. Semantic objects engage in “globalizing” by framing their irregular, specific, and unusual experiences as global and universal modes and experience models.
7. Semantic objects engage in “personalizing” by framing everything as being about them personally because they consider themselves to be the center of the discourse and universe.