Author Question: Thom is a junior in college who is studying creative writing. He often daydreams about what he will ... (Read 115 times)

ghost! · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Thom is a junior in college who is studying creative writing. He often daydreams about what he will be like when he is in his 30s. He usually imagines himself siting at a writing desk in the attic of a house surrounded by a dense forest and a lake.

On the desk is his Nobel Prize for Literature award, and downstairs are his wife and two children. Thom has constructed a(n) ________. a) role model
b) autobiographical memory
c) self-construal
d) possible self

Question 2

Quentin has never liked his coworker, Ryan. One day, he notices that Ryan is called into the manager's office, and he can overhear the manager chastising Ryan for his months of low sales numbers. Quentin takes pleasure in this fact.

Quentin is experiencing ________. a) social contagion
b) Schadenfreude
c) destructive obedience
d) synchronous behavior