Author Question: According to Wegner and his colleagues, the ironic effects of thought suppression: a) are more ... (Read 26 times)

Pea0909berry · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to Wegner and his colleagues, the ironic effects of thought suppression:

a) are more likely to occur when attention is overloaded.
b) occur because of the failure of an ironic monitoring process.
c) can be explained by a three-factor theory of cognitive control.
d) occur because the intentional operating process operates too efficiently.

Question 2

Wegner (1994) has a term for a situation in which we are concentrating so hard to avoid making an action that we actually encourage that action

For example, we are concentrating so hard to NOT miss catching a ground
ball hot towards us, that when the ball gets to our position, we miss it entirely. What does he call this?
a) an action slip
b) ironic effects
c) mistaken actions
d) operator errors