Author Question: You've heard that members of a certain fraternity or sorority are snobs. Whenever you see members of ... (Read 522 times)

cnetterville · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You've heard that members of a certain fraternity or sorority are snobs. Whenever you see members of that fraternity or sorority, you look down and hurry past them.

When they don't greet you, you say to yourself, Just like I thoughtthey're all arrogant snobs. You have experienced a phenomenon known as

a. self-esteem enhancement.
b. irrational disparagement.
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the motivated attribution error.

Question 2

Julia eats granola bars and avoids chocolate bars, even though the granola bars contain 50 percent more fat and 15 percent more sodium than the chocolate bars. According to a social cognition approach, why might that be? Julia

a. is motivated to see herself as a healthy person.
b. is motivated to convince her friends that she is a healthy person.
c. failed to seek out all the relevant facts about the nutritional value of those snacks.
d. needs to justify paying more for the granola bar.