Hilda Is on a Low Carbohydrate Diet, Which Restricts Her

question 172

Multiple Choice

Hilda is on a low carbohydrate diet, which restricts her from eating foods such as white bread, potato chips, and pretzels. The more Hilda thinks about the fact that she cannot eat such foods, the more desperately she craves them. Social psychologists refer to this kind of pattern as a(n) ____.

• A)oxymoronic attribution
• B)ironic process
• C)false activation
• D)mental paradox

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