When Lara comes home from work, her children do not come running to the door to say hello to her. She immediately thinks to herself, "something must be wrong!" As it turns out, they were just very focused on a project that they were doing together and didn't hear her come in the door. Lara's interpretation of their inattentiveness demonstrates what Beck would call

Arbitrary Inference

Explanation:

Arbitrary inference is a mental illusion where the lack of supporting evidence shapes a conclusion of an case. Lack of evidence leads to a false inference, it is a cognitive distortion in which a person draws a conclusion that is unrelated to or contradicted by the evidence.

When Lara came home from work, she was expecting to be greeted by her children, but flthat didn't happen which lead her to conclude that something is wrong with evidence , this illustrate lara arbitrary inference. She formed an interpretation of a situation without having an evidence.