The answer to this question is bias.
This bias is most likely caused by the negative enforcement that caused from the memory of your ex-fiancee.
Due to this negative enforcement, you will associate everything relevant to your fiancee as something distasteful, including her origin.
The answer in the first sentence above is hypothesis because it is defined as having to state a prediction or conjecture in regards about an experiment whereas the second sentence' answer is experimental question because researchers tend to state what they plan to do in regards of their investigation and they do not apply any predictions in the experiment.
I believe the answer is <span>consciousness
From the description above, Dr. Sim is studying the part of the thought process that we conducted <em>on purpose</em>.
If Dr. sim studies activities thought process such as dreaming and how our perception is formed, we can conclude that Dr. Sims is studying the thought process that we conducted without our awareness or Sub-consciousness.</span>
