When people want to suppress a thought, the automatic mind works to ____
a. keep a lookout for anything that might remind them of the unwanted thought
b. redirect attention away from the unpleasant thought
c. "numb" the mind so that people do not think any thoughts
d. "cover up" the unwanted thought with other, competing thoughts
A
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a. belonging; emotional b. instrumental; emotional c. informational; meaning d. meaning; informational e. befriending; tending
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. ?Dollard b. ?Tolman c. ?Pavlov d. ?Hull e. ?Miller
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a. experimenter expectancies about the experiment b. differences in the personal characteristics of subjects in each group c. subject expectancies about the experiment d. the environmental conditions that are intentionally manipulated in the experiment