Jeff has some technical glitches with his computer program during an important presentation at a company meeting. Although flustered, he quickly recovers, and carries on with his presentation. He gets a round of enthusiastic applause at the end and a personal compliment from the company president. But afterward, Jeff agonizes over his technical problems with the computer program and is certain that he has forever disgraced himself in the eyes of his superiors and will never get promoted. According to Beck's cognitive therapy (CT), Jeff is demonstrating a(n) _____ called _____.

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Jeff is demonstrating a negative cognitive bias called selective abstraction, where he focuses solely on the negative aspect of his presentation (the technical glitches) and ignores the positive feedback and outcomes (the applause and the compliment from the company president).

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