If We Try to Predict How South Korea Will React

question 69

Multiple Choice

If we try to predict how South Korea will react to threats from North Korea, considering both the costs and benefits of a particular action, __________ will be most useful.

• A)modernization theory
• B)classical theory
• C)rational-choice theory
• D)Marxist theory

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Definitions:

Self-Handicapping Tendencies

Behaviors or attitudes people adopt to create excuses for themselves, so they can avoid self-blame in case of failure.

Symbolic Interactionism

The perspective that people use their understanding of how others view them as the primary basis for knowing and evaluating themselves.

Social Schema Perspective

A framework for understanding how individuals categorize and interpret social information based on cognitive structures.

Social Role Theory

The theory that gender differences in behavior, personality, and self-definition arise because of a long history of role distribution between the sexes and error-prone assumptions that those roles are essential to men and women’s nature.