Thom is a junior in college who is studying creative writing. He often daydreams about what he will be like when he is in his 30s. He usually imagines himself siting at a writing desk in the attic of a house surrounded by a dense forest and a lake. On the desk is his Nobel Prize for Literature award, and downstairs are his wife and two children. Thom has constructed a(n)

possible self

Explanation: possible self is simply defined as presently having an ideal or recognition of what we what to be in the future and most times we have plan and arrange it all in our head( cognitive memory). Possible self entails the aspect of ourself we really wish or preferred it comes to pass(preferred self), the aspect of our self we are undecided about and yet to picture it clearly

(reluctant self)and the last is the aspect of our life that we are greatly afraid of and which it does not come to pass(feared self)

It is like having a preview of the your future (ideal self). A person may in the present say in 10 years time, he must have been married with 3 kids and working Ina large construction firm. This example above is called possible self.

answer; (cognitive   dissonance);