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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