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soccerdreamer_17

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Bob tends to wait until the last minute to buy Christmas gifts. Unfortunately, this year, by the time he tried to purchase a gift for his wife, the store had closed.
 
  He convinced himself that everything in the store was overpriced anyway, so he decided to make a gift for his wife himself. Arguably, Bob is using a type of ________ in order to convince himself that he never had a chance to purchase the gift.

Question 2

The tendency to imagine outcomes in a situation other than what actually occurred is known as ________.
 
  A) magical thinking
  B) counterfactual thinking
  C) reminiscence thinking
  D) mitigation thinking
  E) counterintuitive thinking



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Answer to Question 1

A) magical thinking

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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