Although Mallory Has Won a Full Scholarship to a Prestigious

question 6

Multiple Choice

Although Mallory has won a full scholarship to a prestigious art school,various art awards,and the admiration of everyone who has seen her artwork,she has decided not to study art because she has convinced herself that she is just not good enough to compete with "really talented" people.Mallory's thinking best exemplifies which cognitive distortion?

• A) Minimization
• B) Overgeneralization
• C) Personalization
• D) Selective abstraction

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that instinctively elicits a response without any prerequisite learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A once-neutral trigger that, upon association with an unconditioned stimulus, in time provokes a conditioned response.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.