You are being tested by an examiner who is showing you pictures about which you are asked to tell complete stories. You are probably taking

Taylor finds it hard to believe that her boyfriend wants to see other women after their two years of exclusive dating

She tries to banish all thoughts of him from her mind, but it doesn't seem to be work. Her strategy is not effective because ________ a. repression is unconscious, not volitional, and so Taylor cannot will it to happen. b. women have introspective styles of rumination, and so Taylor needs more time to brood. c. depressed people have no control over the situations that cause negative emotions. d. by trying to avoid those thoughts, she is processing the thoughts more frequently.

When you read the word tie on a list, you think of it as a tie score in a game. Later when someone asks what word on the list refers to something to wear, you don't think of tie. Why not?

a. Serial order effect b. Anterograde amnesia c. Representativeness heuristic d. Encoding specificity