The question is incomplete asit does not have the options which are:
a. overgeneralization
b. catastrophizing
c. dichotomous thinking
d. selective abstraction
Answer:
Overgeneralization
Explanation:
During the time period when a person feels depressed, the mind is occupied by the negative thoughts which make a person feel bad about his or her life.
Many psychiatrists has given the theory to solve the psychic problem in which one of the psychiatrists was Aaron Beck who gave the cognitive theory of the depression.
The cognitive theory of the depression states that the negative feelings, behaviour and experience to the environment are the cause of the depressive symptoms.
In the given question, the given condition is a type of cognitive therapy distortion called overgeneralization in which one event or experience is applied to generalize all the experiences of the past and future.
Thus, Overgeneralization is the correct answer.
