You Promised a Friend to Pick Him Up After Work

question 124

Multiple Choice

You promised a friend to pick him up after work.As you arrive at home, your friend calls you and says that he has been waiting for over an hour for you to pick him up.You realize that you have not lived up to your promise and feel shame.Richard Lazarus would say that your feeling of shame occurred because of your

• A) unconscious attribution.
• B) emotional appraisal.
• C) cognitive distinction.
• D) facial feedback.

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Definitions:

Retention

The ability to keep, hold, or maintain something in the mind over time, especially information and memories.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and is not demonstrated until there is motivation to do so.

Unreinforced Learning

Learning that occurs without any specific feedback or reinforcement for responses or behaviors.

Extinction

Within psychology, the process where a conditioned response slowly diminishes and eventually ceases when the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is no longer made.