What Is the Net Power That a Person Loses Through

question 24

Multiple Choice

What is the net power that a person loses through radiation if her surface area is 1.20 m²,if her emissivity is 0.895,if her skin temperature is 300 K,and if she is in a room that is at a temperature of 17°C? The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is 5.670 × 10^-8 W/m² • K⁴.

• A) 60.3 W
• B) 62.6 W
• C) 65.7 W
• D) 68.4 W
• E) 64.8 W

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Definitions:

Self-serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute our successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external ones.

Attribution Style

A concept in psychology that refers to how individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, often categorized into internal (dispositional) or external (situational) attributions.

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that involves overestimating the effect of personality and underestimating the influence of situational factors when explaining others' actions.

Weiner

Refers to Bernard Weiner, a psychologist known for his work on attribution theory, which deals with how people interpret and attribute causes to events and behaviors.