When a Situation Is Threatening or Unfamiliar,or When We Are

question 236

Multiple Choice

When a situation is threatening or unfamiliar,or when we are in doubt,we can look to other people to provide information to help us evaluate our reactions.This guide for our behavior is referred to as

• A) attribution.
• B) proxemics.
• C) social comparison.
• D) social status referencing.

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Definitions:

Subjective Criteria

Evaluation or judgment criteria based on personal opinions, interpretations, feelings, or judgments, rather than on objective data or evidence.

Pencil-and-Paper Tests

Traditional forms of assessments or examinations where responses are written or selected on paper, often used for educational or psychological testing.

Polygraphs

Lie detector tests that measure physiological responses to questions in order to infer truthfulness.

Reliability and Validity

Terms used in research and testing to describe, respectively, the consistency of results over time and the accuracy of measuring what it is supposed to measure.