Regarding Beck's views on depression, which of the following definitions of cognitive errors and negative schema is NOT correct?
A)In a self-blame schema, depressed individuals feel personally responsible for every bad thing that happens.
B)Arbitrary inference means that a depressed individual emphasizes the positive rather than the negative aspects of a situation.
C)In a negative self-evaluation schema, depressed individuals believe that they can never do anything correctly.
D)Overgeneralization occurs when a small error is magnified to mean something much more significant.

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Arbitrary inference refers to the tendency to single out one negative detail from a situation to make a generalized negative conclusion. This is different from emphasizing the positive, which is not a cognitive error or negative schema commonly associated with depression.

Regarding Beck's Views on Depression, Which of the Following Definitions