Which Example Illustrates a Successive Negative Contrast Effect

question 62

Multiple Choice

Which example illustrates a successive negative contrast effect?

• A) You are painting a room and run out of paint. You go to the paint store but forget the paint chip and accidentally purchase a lighter shade of the paint than wanted.
• B) Meghan has always been paid $15 an hour for working in Dave's Diner and is happy. Travis, on the other hand, used to make $20 an hour at Mark's Place, but now makes $15 an hour at Dave's Diner. Travis feels cheated making the same amount as Meghan.
• C) You are new to living on your own and to cooking. You prepare a meal with meat that is one day past the "sell by" date but experience no negative side effects. The next time you prepare a meal that is older than the "sell by" date, you become ill.
• D) For ten years, employees at a company have pressed 9 to access an outside telephone line, but occasionally they have dialed 911 by mistake. After ten years the company changes its procedure, so that employees have to dial 7 for an outside line.

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Definitions:

Credit Portion

The segment of a financial transaction that records a decrease in assets or an increase in liabilities on a balance sheet.

Liability Account

An accounting ledger showing the obligations or debts a company owes to others, representing claims against the company's assets.

Debit Portion

The section of a financial transaction that records the increase in assets or decrease in liabilities on the left side of an account.

Credit Portion

Refers to the part of a financial transaction that is recorded as a credit in the accounting records, increasing liabilities or decreasing assets.