Selective abstraction is __________.
A. a tendency to think in extremes
B. a tendency to jump to conclusions based on little or no evidence
C. part of Beck's cognitive triad
D. a tendency to focus on one negative detail of a situation while ignoring other aspects
Answer: D
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Cognitive psychologists believe that behaviorists cannot explain human language because
a. behaviorists place too much emphasis on genetic explanations. b. behaviorists cannot provide appropriate explanations because their research rarely uses operational definitions. c. language has a complex structure that cannot be explained in terms of stimuli and responses. d. language is acquired in humans through adults' careful teaching of young children.
Consider this sentence: "I know that the winters in Wisconsin are colder than the winters in New Jersey." This sentence is an example of:
a. episodic memory. b. semantic memory. c. source monitoring. d. memory encoding.