In an Effort to Encourage Students to Reduce the Amount

question 63

Multiple Choice

In an effort to encourage students to reduce the amount of water being used at the university gym, administrators put up a sign asking students to take shorter showers.However, water consumption did not decrease sufficiently, and some students even retaliated by taking long showers.Why did the sign fail to reduce water usage?

• A) Students didn't see it.
• B) Students didn't read it properly.
• C) It did not involve any psychological processes that successfully change behavior.
• D) It did not create the feeling of a social dilemma.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

An early 19th-century French biologist known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, a precursor to Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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George Lyell

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