Getting Trapped in One's Thoughts About Unpleasant Events and an Inability

question 9

Multiple Choice

Getting trapped in one's thoughts about unpleasant events and an inability to move on from them is a risk of

• A) the accessibility heuristic.
• B) counterfactual thinking.
• C) the availability heuristic.
• D) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
• E) the representativeness heuristic.

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