Author Question: You come home from work and find pieces of broken glass on the floor. You realize that your favorite ... (Read 179 times)

anjilletteb · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You come home from work and find pieces of broken glass on the floor. You realize that your favorite vase was broken. Immediately you blame your new puppy, without even noticing that your toddler's teddy bear is lying on the floor near the broken glass.

The fact that you didn't see the teddy bear is probably due to
a. your poor vision.
b. your schema that puppies are destructive.
c. unconscious transference.
d. source-monitoring errors.

Question 2

After an armed robbery, witnesses aren't often able to describe the culprit. Which of the following are most likely the reasons why?

a. The event was unexpected, and they were frightened.
b. The lights were too bright, and they saw everything but can't put it into words.
c. The event seemed planned and was distracting.
d. They were looking somewhere else and thinking about other things.