Anjelica Is Talking with Some Friends One Day, and She

question 34

Multiple Choice

Anjelica is talking with some friends one day, and she reveals a personal secret disclosed by another friend, Celia. Although Anjelica shared her friend's secret accidentally, she knows this is a serious violation of Celia's trust. Anjelica knows she is generally a trustworthy person, however, and vows to confess her mistake to Celia, with a promise to do whatever it takes to earn her trust again. According to research discussed in your textbook, which emotion is Anjelica most likely to be feeling?

• A) Embarrassment
• B) Guilt
• C) Shame
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Self-Esteem

The subjective evaluation of one's own worth as a person, reflecting attitudes of approval or disapproval about oneself.

Body Weight

A measure of an individual's mass or heaviness, which is often used as an indicator of health.

Negative Correlation

A relationship between two variables in which one variable increases as the other decreases, and vice versa, indicating an inverse association.

Scatterplot

A type of graph used in statistics to visually display and assess the relationship between two quantitative variables by plotting data points on a two-dimensional axis.