Your Friend Has Applied to Several Medical Schools

question 75

Multiple Choice

Your friend has applied to several medical schools. After receiving several rejection letters, she concludes that she will not be admitted to any school and will have no future with a real career. Your friend is engaging in___________.

• A) arbitrary inference
• B) catastrophic exaggeration
• C) minimization
• D) selective thinking

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