A student who has been doing very well in her psychology class receives a minor critical comment on an essay that she wrote as part of an exam. The student thinks, "This is terrible. I'm probably going to fail the course.". This type of cognitive error in thinking is called

a. arbitrary inference.
b. overgeneralization.
c. pessimism
d. dissociating.

b

Psychology

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People with schizophrenia who experience hallucinations and delusions and speak in word salad or demonstrating

A) the positive symptoms of schizophrenia B) catatonia C) bipolar disorder D) the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Psychology

When a therapist has knowledge of a client's cultural and ethnic background and then chooses therapeutic techniques based on what will likely work best for that client's background, the therapist is providing _____

a) ethnic therapy. b) gestalt therapy. c) culturally sensitive therapy. d) a healing circle.

Psychology