Four-year-old Astrid does not like to get dressed early in the morning to go to day care, so rather than simply telling her to put on the clothes he laid out the night before, her father has begun to lay out several outfits and, in the morning, asking her which outfit she wants to wear that day. Astrid's father is making use of the idea of ____.
a. the status quo
b. omission bias
c. reactance
d. dissonance
Question 2
Recall Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority. One interesting finding here was that numerous participants who went ahead and administered shocks at relatively high levels ____.
a. started kicking, hitting, and even biting themselves while doing so
b. showed general signs of intense distress while doing so
c. told the experimenter that they did not want to be compensated at all for participating in the study
d. asked the experimenter to compensate them more for doing so
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