All of the Following Statements About Self-Awareness Are True Except

question 12

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about self-awareness are true except that

• A) self-awareness can foster adherence to moral standards.
• B) people always find self-focus aversive.
• C) self-focus leads people to attend to discrepancies between their behavior and their standards.
• D) people attempt to escape aversive self-awareness through activities such as drinking and watching television.

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Definitions:

Anchoring Heuristic

A cognitive bias where an individual relies too heavily on an initial piece of information to make subsequent judgments.

Extrasensory Perception

A claimed ability to gain information through means other than the known human senses.

Mental Laziness

A state where an individual avoids mentally challenging tasks, preferring comfort over cognitive effort.

Theory Perseverance Effect

The phenomenon where beliefs persist even after the evidence supporting them has been discredited or debunked.