Danica's Grades Have Recently Dropped

question 63

Multiple Choice

Danica's grades have recently dropped.She is reluctant to return a call from her parents because she is avoiding what will be a very unpleasant conversation.Danica's reluctance to call her parents can be explained by

• A) instinct theory.
• B) incentive theory.
• C) drive-reduction theory.
• D) hierarchy of needs theory.

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Definitions:

Individualistic Cultures

Societies that emphasize personal achievements, independence, and self-reliance over collective goals.

Meta-Cognition

The awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes, or thinking about thinking.

Magical Thinking

A belief in the interconnectedness of unrelated phenomena, where an individual attributes cause and effect relationships to actions and events without scientific justification.

Debiasing

Reducing errors and biases by getting people to use deliberate processing rather than automatic processing.