Jordan recently won third place in his city's creative writing contest, even though he hasn't written creatively in years and he submitted a story he wrote years ago. He thinks to himself, "If only I had been working on my writing this whole time, I might have won first place." This is an example of ________ thinking.

a) magical
b) optimist
c) overconfident
d) counterfactual

d

Psychology

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Because older adults generally are more reflective about situations and making judgments, when considering someone's behavior they tend to avoid which of the following?

a. negativity bias b. situational attribution c. correspondence bias d. collaborative cognition

Psychology

Which of these is not one of the three factors in the model of depression proposed

by Seligman et al.? (a) an internal attribution for poor performance (b) a stable attribution (c) a global attribution (d) randomness in the attributions which leads to unpredictability and a sense of helplessness

Psychology