Dividing Events into a Dichotomy of Either All Bad or All

question 54

Multiple Choice

Dividing events into a dichotomy of either all bad or all good is example of which cognitive distortion found in depressed people?

• A)arbitrary inference
• B)all-or-none thinking
• C)selective abstraction
• D)negative bias
• E)overgeneralization

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