The "Barnum effect," in which vague statements about one's future or personality may be seen as accurate and valid, occurs because of the

According to cognitive theories of depression, various types of cognitive errors, or distortions in thinking, are partly responsible for the disorder. Which of the following is one of the cognitive distortions mentioned in your textbook?

a. assigning specific, impersonal meaning to an experience of failure b. a tendency to overgeneralize conclusions about the self based on positive experiences c. a tendency to turn suspicion toward others toward the self d. a tendency to recall selectively events with negative consequences

There are two major categories of acquired dyslexia:

A) surface and deep. B) lexical and phonetic. C) linguistic and semantic. D) semantic and phonological. E) lexical and semantic.