Author Question: On a backpacking trip, Carla lost her wallet, which contained all her cash and credit cards. She is ... (Read 184 times)

folubunmi · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

On a backpacking trip, Carla lost her wallet, which contained all her cash and credit cards. She is waiting on a money transfer from her father, but it will take over two days.

She already hasn't eaten anything for a whole day, and she is considering stealing food from a supermarket and then paying the store back after she receives the money. Carla is having trouble bringing herself to steal the food, though, because not stealing food is a(n) ________ norm. a) descriptive
b) conformity
c) injunctive
d) informational

Question 2

Jackson is a former member of a street gang. He has recently started attending classes at a local community college, has made new friends who don't know about his former gang membership, and is spending time with a woman from an upper-middle-

class background. Jackson heard his new friends and his girlfriend make several snide comments about gang members shortly before he took a test in one of the classes he shares with his new friends. In the light of the stereotype threat idea, this situation may cause Jackson to ________. a) perform better on the test than he otherwise might have
b) perform worse on the test than he otherwise might have
c) become prejudiced against his new friends and his girlfriend
d) regret that he's never mentioned his former gang membership to his new friends