According to Richard Lazarus, People Tend to Evaluate a Stimulus

question 426

Multiple Choice

According to Richard Lazarus, people tend to evaluate a stimulus as good or bad, threatening or supportive, relevant or irrelevant, and so on. This illustrates

• A)emotional appraisal.
• B)unconscious attribution.
• C)cognitive distinction.
• D)facial feedback.

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Definitions:

Reciprocal Liking

Reciprocal liking refers to the phenomenon where individuals are more likely to feel attracted to and like someone who feels the same way towards them.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Mere-Exposure Effect

A psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things simply because they are familiar with them.

External Attribution

The process of attributing one's own behavior or the behavior of others to external factors or situations.