Bob Tends to Wait Until the "Last Minute" to Buy

Multiple Choice

Bob tends to wait until the "last minute" to buy Christmas gifts.Unfortunately,this year,by the time he tried to purchase a gift for his wife,the store had closed.He convinced himself that everything in the store was overpriced anyway,so he decided to make a gift for his wife himself.Arguably,Bob is using a type of ________ in order to convince himself that he "never had a chance" to purchase the gift.

A) magical thinking
B) mood congruent memory
C) moderating variables
D) counterfactual thinking
E) thought suppression