When Andre did not receive the highest grade in the class (he actually earned a B+), he immediately thought of himself as a failure and as the worst student. Andre was committing which of the following cognitive errors?

a. dichotomous thinking
b. selective abstraction
c. overgeneralization
d. personalization


A

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