A Student Who Has Been Doing Very Well in Class

question 51

Multiple Choice

A student who has been doing very well in class receives a minor critical comment on an essay she wrote.The student thinks,"This is terrible.I'm probably going to fail the course." What is this type of cognitive error in thinking?

• A) overgeneralization
• B) dissociating
• C) splitting
• D) arbitrary inference

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