Which of the Following Are Examples of Cognitive Distortions That

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are examples of cognitive distortions that help depressed individuals maintain their negative cognitive schemas, even in the face of contradictory evidence?

• A) Arbitrary inference: drawing negative conclusions in the absence of corroborating evidence
• B) Selective abstraction: concentrating on one detail about a situation and ignoring others, thereby not seeing the whole picture
• C) All-or-nothing thinking: viewing things in black-and-white terms, rather than as occurring on a continuum
• D) All of the above

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