Spot the thinking traps that fuel cravings, slips, and shame—and the evidence-based ways to counter them—across MI moves, CBT skills, and classic distortions. This is a Middle School Science review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Thinking Errors, More Thinking Errors, Definitions, Even More Thinking Errors, So Many Thinking Errors.
- Middle School Science review
- Whole-class review on one shared screen
- Test or quiz prep
- Team-vs-team practice in class
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
“They’ll think I’m boring if I don’t drink at the party.”
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Mind reading
+4 more clues in this category
“I had one drink, so I’m a complete failure.”
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Labeling
+4 more clues in this category
A type of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
+4 more clues in this category
"I relapsed tonight, so I'll never be able to recover."
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Overgeneralization
+4 more clues in this category
“I noticed one craving today, so the whole week was bad.”
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Mental filter
+4 more clues in this category
Board content
Thinking Errors
- $100 — “They’ll think I’m boring if I don’t drink at the party.”
- Mind reading
- $200 — "I should be able to go out with my friends without wanting to drink. Other people can do that."
- "Should" statement
- $300 — Cocaine is my drug of choice, so it's not a big deal if I drink.
- Minimization
- $400 — “If I can't go to a party without drinking, I'll never be able to have a social life."
- All or nothing thinking
- $500 — "Everyone I know drinks or uses, so it's normal."
- Justification
More Thinking Errors
- $100 — “I had one drink, so I’m a complete failure.”
- Labeling
- $200 — “Since I slipped, I might as well go all out.”
- All-or-nothing thinking
- $300 — “I feel ashamed, so I must be back at square one.”
- Emotional reasoning
- $400 — “I messed up tonight; I always mess up.”
- Overgeneralization
- $500 — “This tiny mistake will wreck my whole recovery.”
- Magnification
Definitions
- $100 — A type of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- $200 — The way a person acts or responds to a situation, thought, feeling or experience
- Behavior
- $300 — An emotional experience that occurs in response to a thought, situation, memory, or experience
- Feeling
- $400 — replacing negative, unhelpful thoughts with more realistic and balanced ones
- Cognitive restructuring
- $500 — a thought that pops into your mind quickly in response to a situation, feeling, or experience
- Automatic thought
Even More Thinking Errors
- $100 — "I relapsed tonight, so I'll never be able to recover."
- Overgeneralization
- $200 — "I don't care about tomorrow. I just want to feel good tonight."
- Tunnel Vision
- $300 — “I should be able to handle just one.”
- "should" statement
- $400 — “I should have stopped my friend from taking that drink; their lapse is on me.”
- Personalization
- $500 — "I know I'll relapse if I try to get sober."
- Fortune-telling
So Many Thinking Errors
- $100 — “I noticed one craving today, so the whole week was bad.”
- Mental filter
- $200 — “Those three sober days don’t count; they were easy.”
- Discounting the positive
- $300 — “It was just a few shots; no big deal.”
- Minimization
- $400 — "I'm a loser because I messed up and took a drink today."
- Labeling
- $500 — “If urges show up, disaster is coming.”
- Catastrophizing
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