If Calvin tells everyone "I'm a Texan," and by that, he is communicating that he loves barbecue,

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If Calvin tells everyone "I'm a Texan," and by that, he is...

If Calvin tells everyone "I'm a Texan," and by that, he is communicating that he loves barbecue, considers himself a cowboy, and relishes the hot weather, he is a. creating a self-schema. b. embracing his reflected self-appraisals. c. self-handicapping. d. self-stereotyping.

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00:01 In question number 10, we have a young gentleman named calvin who was worried that his college education might have been wasted because he didn't get his dream job.

00:12 Furthermore, calvin believes that he ruined his future when he did poorly in his job interview.

00:18 So there's two things that are gone wrong there.

00:19 Calvin explains that he had to ace this interview.

00:22 It had to be perfect and it wasn't.

00:24 How might a cognitive behavioral psychologist classify this disordid thought process? right so a it's distorted we already know that from the get -go and the options we have are a magnification or b over generalization i'll just write over generalization as og unintended but kind of funny um all or nothing all, nothing, type of thinking and minimalization.

01:14 As usual, start off by knocking out the ones that we know are wrong for a fact.

01:20 Minimilization, he's definitely not minimizing anything.

01:23 If anything else, he's exaggerating a lot of things.

01:26 Now, it might make you think that magnification is the right answer, right? because it seems like he's magnifying a lot of things.

01:32 He's magnifying the fact that his job didn't go bad means that, he did terrible.

01:38 For this question in particular, you kind of have to really focus on the question.

01:42 He had to ace the interview...

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If Calvin tells everyone "I'm a Texan," and by that, he is communicating that he loves barbecue, considers himself a cowboy, and relishes the hot weather, he is a. creating a self-schema. b. embracing his reflected self-appraisals. c. self-handicapping. d. self-stereotyping.

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