As Vince is driving to work he gets pulled over by a police officer.He thinks to himself,"Of course! Bad things always happen to me." This is an example of

A) state-dependent memory.
B) a negative explanatory style.
C) learned helplessness.
D) rumination.

Negative Explanatory Style

A cognitive approach where individuals habitually attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global factors.

State-Dependent Memory

The phenomenon where information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., emotional, sober, intoxicated) is more easily recalled when in the same state.

Learned Helplessness

A situation where an individual experiences feelings of helplessness, resulting from experiencing a traumatic event or ongoing inability to achieve success.