Lindsay fails an accounting test. Lindsay now believes that she should probably change to a non-business major, that she should quit her part-time job at the bank, and should resign as the treasurer for the business club, even though she is quite good at all of these activities. Lindsay's behavior exemplifies the distortion of thinking cognitive therapists call
a. all-or-nothing thinking.
b. personification.
c. overgeneralization.
d. selective perception.
c
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The discovery of the regression phenomenon is credited to
a. Karl Pearson b. Sir Francis Galton c. Sir Ronald Fisher d. Dr. Sigmund Gestalt
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