After he asked Rachel to be his girlfriend and she declined his request,
Trey spent the next several days recounting the rejection in his mind. He thought about different ways he might have asked, reasons why she might have said no, and felt sure that everyone would be talking about him behind his back. Each time he thought of these unpleasant things, he got a little more upset. Trey is engaging in a practice called _____.
A) meditation
B) rumination
C) CAM-ing
D) initialing
Answer: B
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Core pathologies
a. provide new resources for coping with the next psychosocial crisis. b. protect the person from unwanted interaction with the societal system. c. provide new information. d. promote an optimistic worldview.
Eric has maintained contact with six of his high school friends for the last 60 years. They often get together for activities, to socialize, and to simply spend time together. Eric and his longtime friends would be best described as a(n) a. zone of maximal performance potential. b. environmental press
c. zone of minimal comfort. d. social convoy.
One of the justifications given by trial consultants for their methods is that
A. they work for the underprivileged. B. they're not radically different from that of politicians. C. jury members are informed of their recommendations. D. all of the above
Bottom-up processing refers to perceptual analysis in which information from an individual's past experience, knowledge, expectations, motivations, and background influence the way a perceived object is interpreted and classified
a. true b. false