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Bob-Dole

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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.



kiamars2010

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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