You must study for two tests within the next eight hours. Both tests should require six hours of study time, which is four hours more than you have

You need to make a good grade on both tests. So, you being studying for one test and then start thinking about the need to study for the other, so you switch to the other subject. You are experiencing a reaction known as
a. freezing.
b. vacillation.
c. "leaving the field."
d. circumvention.


ANSWER: b

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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