If a Student Focuses on One Mediocre Grade and Ignores

question 50

Multiple Choice

If a student focuses on one mediocre grade and ignores all of her other grades which are higher, a cognitive therapist would assert that her emotional distress is due to ______.

• A) selective abstraction
• B) overgeneralization
• C) magnification
• D) absolutist thinking

---

Definitions:

Formula

A mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols, or a prescribed and detailed method of doing something.

Malnutrition

A condition that occurs from consistently eating a diet in which nutrients are either not enough or are too much, causing health problems.

Stunting

The failure of children to grow to a normal height for their age due to severe and chronic malnutrition.

Neurons

Specialized cells of the nervous system that transmit information to other neurons, muscles, or gland cells.