Corey Thinks That People Who Are Outgoing Are Also Friendly

question 17

Multiple Choice

Corey thinks that people who are outgoing are also friendly, confident, and fun. Corey's assumption that outgoing are also friendly, confident, and fun is inference based on his ____ of the qualities that accompany outgoingness.

• A) standpoint
• B) self-serving bias
• C) stereotype
• D) implicit personality theory
• E) mind reading

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals, groups, or even nations to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.

Sublimation

In psychology, it refers to a defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior.

Unacceptable Sexual Impulses

Sexual desires or thoughts that are considered inappropriate or morally wrong by societal standards or personal values.

Collective Unconscious

A term coined by Carl Jung, referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind.