Marion receives an average grade on her term assignment.She is very upset but fails to acknowledge that most other students failed the assignment.This represents what type of cognitive error?

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Selective abstraction is the cognitive error demonstrated here, where Marion focuses solely on her average grade while ignoring the context that most other students failed the assignment. This means she is selectively abstracting a detail (her average grade) and ignoring broader, contextual information.

Marion Receives an Average Grade on Her Term Assignment