When someone "jumps to conclusions," Beck would say that he or she is suffering from a distortion in thought called ______________

a) selective thinking
b) arbitrary inference
c) overgeneralization
d) personalization

ANS: b

Psychology

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When a child exhibits the A not B error, he or she:

a. fails to habituate to a new stimulus after viewing an old stimulus b. fails to combine two individual schemes in order to reach a goal (e.g. to push one object out of the way to reach another) c. notices a correlation between two things and incorrectly infers that one factor caused the other factor d. looks for an object where it has been previously found rather than where it has just been seen

Psychology

Prolonging exposure to the information by repeating it to oneself is referred to as _____

a. maintenance rehearsal b. storage c. elaborative rehearsal d. recall

Psychology