Exposure to uncontrollable or inescapable stressors can impair future learning, an effect that led _______ (1975) to propose that uncontrollable events are the basis for depressive disorders.

You were recently watching your younger sister, who is 13 years old, try to figure out why her cell phone was not working. You were fascinated by the systematic problem-solving strategies that she was using

You remember just a few months ago she would not have been able to perform at this level of hypothesis testing. According to Piaget, what type of reasoning is she using? a. random operations b. haphazard trial and error processing c. discrete trial learning d. hypothetical-deductive reasoning

The process of pulling isolated negative details from an event and ignoring all the positive

details from the same event, is known as ______. a. catastrophizing c. selective abstraction b. musterbation d. personalization