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Beheh

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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.

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In 1989, Abramson and his colleagues revised Seligman's theory of learned helplessness, changing the focus from specific attributions to ________ as the crucial factor in depression.
 
  a. lack of control
 b. a sense of hopelessness
  c. repressed anger
 d. a feeling of failure


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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