|Question 4Verbal

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The work of Tobias Gerstenberg et al. on tracking eye movements supports a theory that people engage in [blank] thinking when making causal judgments: when subjects were asked to look at two colliding billiard balls and judge whether one caused or prevented the other's movement through a gate, their eyes looked at where the target ball would have gone if the ball that altered its path did not exist.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
counterfactual
A
analogical
B
ambivalent
C
associative
D