Maggie suffers from depression. She appears to focus ont hings that are not going well and often cites how events in her life are proof that she is a failure. For example, she considered a "B" on a recent calculus exam to be a "failure" and feels the grade supports her elief that she will never be successful. Maggie's interpretation and manipulation events would be described as a(n) by a cognitive therapist.a. input errorb. cognitive distortionc. condition of worthd. retrieval problem

A cognitive distortion is something like that when a person starts to think irrationally and believe in irrational thought that is not true is called cognitive distortion. On this cognitive error person starts to manipulate himself and believes that he is a failure and can not get success that is not true. These irrational beliefs help people to promote negative thinking which is a cognitive distortion about situation.

Common error are as:

Filtration
Over-generalization
Jumping to the conclusion
Catastrophic
Personalization
Blaming