Barney is sure that no woman will want to date him because the first woman he asked out since coming to college declined his offer. Beck would say Barney is at risk for developing depression because he is engaging in ________.
selective perception
overgeneralization
transference
self-defeating behavior
overgeneralization
Barney is sure that no woman will want to date him because the first woman he asked out since coming to college declined his offer. Beck would say Barney is at risk for developing depression because he is engaging in overgeneralization. This is a distortion in the thinking process which involves a lot of errors when it comes to the analysis of a prospective problem. A faulty conclusion is usually drawn from insufficient or incorrect premises and something very similar is happening in the given example/case-study.
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