College Board ? of the Day

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The idea that people ------- their own reality or shape their experience based on previous subjective events is one of the fundamental ------- of social psychology.

a) extricate . . privileges
b) avoid . . desires
c) construct . . axioms
d) fortify . . goals
e) instill . . archetypes

Hint
The second missing term should mean nearly the same thing as “idea.”