Author Question: Tarek needs do his laundry but has been very busy. Under which of the following conditions is he ... (Read 39 times)

jayhills49 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Tarek needs do his laundry but has been very busy. Under which of the following conditions is he most likely to his laundry in the next few days?

a. He says to himself, I'll do my laundry at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, and if my roommate says we should play video games then, I'll ask him if we can do that later.
b. He vows to do it at some point the next day.
c. He vows to do it sometime in the next 2 days.
d. He vows not to think about video games the next day so that he doesn't spend time doing that instead of doing his laundry.

Question 2

Eduardo is tempted to eat some of his roommate's cookies, even though his roommate told him not to. Under which of the following conditions would Eduardo be mostly likely to resist the temptation to eat the cookies?

a. It's the afternoon, and Eduardo has had a busy morning.
b. Eduardo believes that willpower is fixed resource and that people have a limited amount of it.
c. Eduardo went to the gym that morning and had a good workout.
d. Eduardo had spent a few minutes praying earlier in the day.