Individuals who are in stressful situations frequently experience ...

[Chelseaamend]

Individuals who are in stressful situations frequently experience an increase in their need to affiliate with others in a similar situation. This may be because ________.
 
  a) affiliation with others in similar situations may increase our sense of belongingness
  b) such affiliations provide opportunities for social comparisons
  c) affiliation with others in similar situations may increase our sense of isolation
  d) others who are in similar situations may better know what to do

Question 2

List and describe the three basic processes of social cognition.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[pallen55]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

The three basic processes of social cognition are attention, encoding, and retrieval. Attention refers to the information we notice. Encoding refers to the processes we use to store noticed information in memory. Retrieval refers to how we recover information from memory in order to use it in some manner.

[Chelseaamend]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[meganmoser117]

Excellent