Count Dracula, Who Is Pretty Average-Looking by Our Standards, Decides

question 193

Multiple Choice

Count Dracula, who is pretty average-looking by our standards, decides to visit Velma's Video Vamporium, where he can choose his next vivacious victim via video technology. After viewing volumes of videos, he chooses Vanna because he finds her voluptuous, even though most people think that she is also of average attractiveness. Which of the following provides the best explanation of the count's attraction to Vanna?

• A)The contact hypothesis
• B)The matching hypothesis
• C)The consistency hypothesis
• D)The social comparison hypothesis

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Definitions:

Overjustification Effect

The phenomenon in which rewarding a person for performing an activity actually decreases their intrinsic motivation to perform that activity.

Externality Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that individuals attribute their success to internal factors and failures to external factors, often explored within the context of social psychology and self-perception.

Principle Homeostasis

The regulatory principle that organisms maintain a stable internal environment despite external changes.

Hierarchy Needs

A theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow, suggesting that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, which form a hierarchy.