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Andrew saw a TV commercial for a new video game that he had been wanting. The game was on sale for 50 off, but the store was set to close in two hours. Andrew was 15 minutes late getting to the store and missed the sale.
 
  To ease his distress about missing the sale, Andrew reasoned that he never really had a chance to get to the store before it closed because traffic was too heavy, even though he could have taken a different, quicker route. This is an example of ________. a) affective shifting
  b) contra-affective cognition
  c) affective heuristics
  d) counterfactual thinking

Question 2

Steve, who is Jewish and has friends who are mostly Jewish, attends a high school where most of the students are Christian. Steve eventually becomes good friends with Jake, who is Christian and has friends who are mostly Christian.
 
  As a result of this new friendship, which of the following events is the MOST likely to occur? a) Steve will gradually begin to adopt some of the anti-Jewish sentiments displayed by his Christian friends.
  b) Steve's Jewish friends will be more inclined to feel positively toward Jake's Christian friends, though Jake's Christian friends will be less inclined to feel positively toward Steve's Jewish friends.
  c) Both Steve's friends and Jake's friends will be increasingly likely to feel that members of their respective outgroups do not necessarily dislike their respective ingroups.
  d) The anti-outgroup norms from each of the respective groups will probably stay about the same in intensity.



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shoemake

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c




meagbuch

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


Dnite

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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