Sally Lives in a Middle Class Neighborhood

question 160

Multiple Choice

Sally lives in a middle class neighborhood. It really isn't anything special, but most of Sally's friends live in smaller homes in lower class neighborhoods, so Sally thinks of herself as well-off. When Sally compares her home to the homes of her friends, she is making a(n) ____.

• A) upward social comparison
• B) downward social comparison
• C) internal attribution
• D) external attribution

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Definitions:

Safety

The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury, often referenced in the context of health, environment, and work.

Control Group

A group in an experiment or study that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.

Experimental Group

In research, a group of subjects who are exposed to the variable under investigation, as opposed to the control group which is not.

Comparisons

The act of evaluating two or more items to highlight their similarities and differences.