Oh my gosh," sara exclaims as she leaves her biology exam. "i just know that i got number 48 wrong! i just know that i'm going to fail this class."
according to a cognitive psychologist, sara is engaging in which of the following distorted thought processes?

a. all-or-nothing thinking
b. magnification
c. overgeneralization
d. minimization

a. all-or-nothing thinking

Explanation:

A cognitive distortion is based on our way of only thinking in one way without considering other ways and we use this to every situation automatically.

When we over do this cognitive distortion it may lead to anxiety, anger and depression.

All or nothing thinking is based on thinking about a situation only in an extreme way for example there is no better or good in this thinking it is all best if not best it worst, we accept perfection if not that we think we have failed. There are no gray areas in this kind of thinking such as how Sara is thinking she assumes she only had one answer wrong however to her this means she will fail. This is taking it to an extreme because failing one answer doesn't mean you have failed.

This means she doesn't accept anything less than 100% in her thinking that is failure so it all or nothing thinking , either she got all the answers right other than that it will mean nothing.

the reason the welfare system causes so much of a burden on its recipients is because the welfare system does not give its recipients any real tools to actually get out of poverty. the welfare system has embedded poverty deeper into society and has made it harder and harder for people to escape poverty.

in other words, it stoped the poor, and now its making it worse.

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