You Stayed Up All Night Cramming for This Examination and Didn't

question 18

Multiple Choice

You stayed up all night cramming for this examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped. "If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest, I'd have done much better," you think to yourself. You have just engaged in __________.

• A) self-justification
• B) counterfactual thinking
• C) wish fulfillment
• D) unrealistic fantasy

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Definitions:

Stunted Growth

A condition in which growth and development are significantly below the normal rates for age, often due to malnutrition or neglect.

Failure To Thrive

A medical and psychological condition typically noticed in infants and children, where they exhibit significantly slower physical development compared to peers, often due to malnutrition, emotional neglect, or underlying health issues.

Proportions

The relative sizes or ratios of parts to a whole or to one another within a whole, commonly used in mathematical, artistic, and design contexts.

Neonates

Newborn babies, especially those less than a month old, characterized by rapid physical growth and developmental changes.