Martin Spent a Lot of Time and Money Getting into the Most

question 40

Multiple Choice

Martin spent a lot of time and money getting into the most exclusive country club. Despite the fact that the golf course and other amenities turned out to be similar to his old club, he is much more enthusiastic about the new one. This reaction is know as ______.

• A) escalation trap
• B) effort justification
• C) sunken cost fallacy
• D) Stockholm syndrome

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Definitions:

Piaget's Conservation Task

A type of task designed by Jean Piaget to assess a child's ability to recognize that certain properties of objects remain the same even when their appearances change.

Decentration

The cognitive ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation instead of focusing on a single viewpoint, a concept often discussed in developmental psychology.

Conservation of Number

A concept in cognitive development that reflects a child's ability to understand that the quantity of a set of items remains the same regardless of how they are arranged.

Spatial Rearrangements

Changes or modifications in the position or arrangement of objects in space.