Much of Our Psychological Reasoning Occurs on the "Low Road

question 117

Multiple Choice

Much of our psychological reasoning occurs on the "low road" of automatic unconscious thinking.This is best illustrated by our

• A) concrete operations.
• B) moral intuitions.
• C) formal operations.
• D) postconventional morality.

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