What percentage of first-year college students achieve formal operational thought?

How do the leading causes of death in the United States today compare with those in the early 1900s?

a) As in the early 1900s, infectious diseases represent the leading causes of death in the U.S. today. b) In the early 1900s, behavioral factors played a large part in the leading causes of death, just as they do today. c) In the early 1900s, the leading causes of death were largely infectious; today, behavioral factors play a bigger role. d) Behavioral factors contributed substantially to the leading causes of death in the early 1900s. Today, infectious diseases are the main causes of death.

Often when something negative happens in our lives we exaggerate the effects this event has on other aspects of our lives. This irrational belief is known as ____________

a. catastrophizing b. overgeneralization c. myth of causation d. need for approval