Your Friend Has Applied to Several Medical Schools

question 290

Multiple Choice

Your friend has applied to several medical schools. After receiving several rejection letters, she concludes that she is never going to amount to anything in life. Your friend is engaging in ________.

• A) arbitrary inference
• B) magnification
• C) minimization
• D) selective thinking

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Definitions:

Intelligence Test

A standardized assessment designed to measure cognitive abilities, including reasoning, problem-solving, and understanding, to derive an intelligence quotient (IQ).

Simon and Binet

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, French psychologists who developed the first intelligence test in the early 20th century to identify students needing special education.

Mental Age

A measure of an individual's mental proficiency expressed in terms of the average age at which a normal individual reaches the same level of proficiency.

IQ

A measure of an individual's intellectual abilities in relation to others, often calculated through standardized tests.