You stayed up all night cramming for this examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped. If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest, I'd have done much better, you think to yourself. You have just engaged in
a. self-justification.
b. counterfactual thinking.
c. wish fulfillment.
d. unrealistic fantasy.
Question 2
Jason cannot stop thinking about the fact that because he turned in his term paper late, he missed getting an A in the class. He repetitively focuses on this negative part of the class;
in other words, his counterfactual thinking has turned into
a. thought suppression.
b. rumination.
c. heuristics.
d. controlled thinking.
