Stephan Sees a Text Message from a Phone Number He

question 5

Multiple Choice

Stephan sees a text message from a phone number he does not recognize on his girlfriend's phone.He immediately assumes his girlfriend is seeing someone else and the phone number belongs to that person.Beck would say that Stephan has engaged in what type of distorted thinking?

• A)arbitrary inference
• B)selective thinking
• C)overgeneralization
• D)personalization

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