Bart Complied with His Friends' Request to Join Them in Smashing

question 10

Multiple Choice

Bart complied with his friends' request to join them in smashing decorative pumpkins early one Halloween evening. Later that night, he was surprised by his own failure to resist their pressures to throw eggs at passing police cars. Bart's experience best illustrates the

• A) bystander effect.
• B) foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
• C) fundamental attribution error.
• D) frustration-aggression principle.

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Definitions:

Psychic Mistreatment

Emotional or psychological abuse involving the use of verbal or non-verbal actions to control, isolate, or intimidate another individual.

Attributing

The process of explaining the reasons behind behaviors or events, often focusing on either internal dispositions or external situations.

Repression

A defense mechanism where unwanted thoughts and desires are pushed into the unconscious mind.

Forgetting

The loss or failure to recall information that was once stored in the memory, due to various factors like time, interference, or failure in retrieval cues.