Inanna suffers from chronic depression.According to the social-cognitive perspective,how is she most likely to respond when told that she performed very poorly on a test she took the previous day?

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According to the social-cognitive perspective, individuals who suffer from chronic depression tend to have negative thought patterns and have a tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global factors. Option A's response is an example of this kind of thinking, as it suggests that Inanna believes her poor performance is due to her own incompetence, which is an internal and stable factor (i.e., it cannot be changed and is part of her identity).

Inanna Suffers from Chronic Depression