Your Roommate Spends Several Minutes Detailing the Reasons She Did

question 97

Multiple Choice

Your roommate spends several minutes detailing the reasons she did not meet you for lunch even though you had made plans to eat together.You start tuning out her lengthy explanations.Which of the barriers to accurate perception is influencing you?

• A) oversimplifying
• B) imposing consistency
• C) overgeneralizing
• D) negative focus

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Definitions:

Premise

An initial assertion that paves the way for a conclusion or inference to be made.

Justification

Providing sufficient reasons, evidence, or arguments to support a claim, belief, or action as valid or acceptable.

Premise

An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work's conclusion; in logic, it is the antecedent of an argument.

Simp

A slang term often used to describe someone who performs excessive subservience or attention to another person, typically someone they're interested in, often disregarding their own needs or dignity.