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Which of the following statements best captures the cognitive distortion of mistaken responsibility?
 
  a. My partner is going to have an accident when s/he goes skiing.
  b. I failed my first statistics exam. I'll never get into graduate school.
  c. I have to get an A in that class.
  d. I didn't get the grade I wanted in that class I'm so stupid.
  e. My partner is angry today. I must have done something wrong.

Question 2

Alexander Graham Bell studied the human ear and noticed how sounds were transmitted when a membrane (the eardrum) vibrated. He applied this knowledge to the development of the telephone, using a similar process of vibration of a membrane. Which cognitive process did Bell demonstrate?
 
  a. Metaphor
  b. Conceptual expansion c. Analogy
  d. Conceptual combination e. Mental set



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

c



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