Sam Is 80 Years Old and Often Yearns for the "Good

question 92

Multiple Choice

Sam is 80 years old and often yearns for the "good old days." Whenever he watches old movies from his youth, he thinks of the friends he had and the cars they used to drive on weekends up and down the main street of his home town. Sam is experiencing _____.

• A) rumination
• B) nostalgia
• C) sentimentalism
• D) association bias
• E) semantic memories

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