The Great Popularity of the Internet as an Arena for Socializing

question 73

Multiple Choice

The great popularity of the Internet as an arena for socializing

• A) has caused psychologists to reevaluate the importance of proximity and attractiveness in relationship development.
• B) is interpreted by psychologists as one more sign of social isolation and alienation.
• C) has caused researchers to suspect that self-disclosure is less important in relationship development than previously believed.
• D) has been predicted to decline as this decade progresses.

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Definitions:

Elimination-by-aspects

A decision-making model where choices are sequentially filtered based on specific criteria until one option remains.

Compensatory Decision-making

A decision-making process where individuals make choices by weighing the pros and cons of different options to compensate for weaker attributes by stronger ones.

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used, ignoring other possible uses.

Noncompensatory Modeling

A decision-making process where options are evaluated based on whether they meet predetermined criteria, without considering trade-offs between characteristics.