Author Question: When Robin meets her friend's new roommate, she sees that she has easels and paints strewn about, ... (Read 32 times)

Melani1276 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

When Robin meets her friend's new roommate, she sees that she has easels and paints strewn about, and has decorated her side of the room with lots of hand-made ceramic pots and paintings. At first, Robin is most likely

a. to use her artistic person schema and assume that her friend's roommate is free-thinking and creative.
b. not to make any assumptions about her friend's roommate's preferences and tastes.
c. to use her artistic person schema and focus on her friend's roommate's deviations from the schema, such as the fact that she is majoring in business.
d. to change her artistic person schema when she discovers that her friend's roommate is a business major.

Question 2

When you meet your new roommate for the first time, he is wearing glasses, listening to classical music, and reading a copy of the New Yorker Review of Books.

You think, Well, maybe rooming with an intellectual this year will be good for me. You instantly categorized your roommate as an intellectual on the basis of your

a. schemas.
b. memories.
c. intuitions.
d. heuristics.