The cognitive thought distortion defined as assuming excessive personal responsibility for negative events is _____.

A. all-or-nothing thinking
B. catastrophizing
C. personalization
D. overgeneralization


C. personalization

Psychology

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A. memory and attention problems that last several months B. Alzheimer's disease-like atrophy in the brain C. hearing loss that lasts for approximately one week D. dementia pugilistica

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Which of the following terms refers to giving equal status, recognition, and acceptance to different ethnic and cultural groups?

a. groupthink b. symbolic prejudice c. just-world beliefs d. multiculturalism

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Janis first developed the notion of ____________ after studying the U.S.'s botched attack

on Cuba. a. group polarization b. out-group homogeneity c. social facilitation d. groupthink e. diffusion of responsibility

Psychology