You Are in the Supermarket with Your Mother and Notice

question 30

Essay

You are in the supermarket with your mother and notice they now sell irradiated ground beef. Your mother tells you to stay away from it because it is radioactive and dangerous. What would you tell her to convince her otherwise?

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Definitions:

World-view

Encompasses the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view.

Normative Influence

The impact others have on our behavior through norms or behaviors that are deemed acceptable by a group, leading individuals to conform in order to be liked or accepted.

Solomon Asch

A prominent psychologist known for his research on conformity, including his famous experiments demonstrating how people could be influenced to contradict their own accuracy for group consensus.

Halo Effect

The cognitive bias where the perception of one positive trait (such as attractiveness) leads to the unfounded assumption of other positive traits, such as intelligence or morality.