Ricardo and Monique are in couple's therapy because they often argue with each other. On one day, their therapist asks each of them to think of 5 times in which they provoked the other person into an argument. On another day, their therapist asks them to think of 10 times when they did the same thing.
Initially, Chuan is very happy to spend a night out. However, at the bar, he accidentally bumps into another man and spills his drink. This man becomes very angry, because he infers that Chuan intentionally knocked into him in order to spill his drink.
Self-handicapping refers to: placing obstacles in the way of one's success to protect self-esteem. Manute has often done well on math tests in the past.
the representativeness heuristic. In a classic study by Asch, participants read some traits of a person whom they did not know. In one condition, participants read that the person was "intelligent, industrious, and envious.". In the other condition, participants read that the person was "envious, intelligent, and industrious.".
In the context of implicit personality theories, a central trait like "warm" and "cold" is: a trait that dominates other people's impression of a person, and to which they mold their understanding of the person's other, non-central traits.
common sense psychology and recognition of the importance of how people make sense of the everyday world. In a classic study, Heider and Simmel (1944) showed people a film clip of a large triangle and small triangle moving around and out of a larger square.
people are more likely to remember negative information when in a negative mood , and positive information in a positive mood. Hakeem is being asked to complete a psychology study about his childhood. At the beginning of the study, he is given a piece of candy in exchange for participating - and Hakeem loves candy.
a challenge to commonly held ideas about the role of the Declaration in American history. a confirmation of the author’s assumption that Americans are unfamiliar with the Declaration. a possible objection from Declaration scholars who resist textual analysis.
In sentence 19 (reproduced below), the writer wants to change the conclusion by adding a direct quotation that both reinforces the main argument of the passage and places that argument in a broader context. In 2013, President Obama acknowledged that people have a sentimental attachment to the penny.
</p>. <p>The first paragraph presents a current critical view of the Declaration, and the second paragraph argues that that view is restricted. </p>.
the difference between the Declaration and works of imaginative literature. the difficulty of discerning authorial intention in a text. the variety of forms of writing that existed at the time of the Declaration. <p>the formulaic manner in which most texts are studied </p>. alternatives.
The composition of the copper penny was changed in 1982, but that was not the end of its troubles. The actual weight of the penny has varied over the years, depending on its composition, but it still carries a lot of weight in the figurative sense.