Professor Crane Was Ecstatic When He Learned That His Research

question 8

Multiple Choice

Professor Crane was ecstatic when he learned that his research study had been approved for publication. His feelings of joy quickly dissipated, however, when he heard a colleague recently had three different research articles accepted for publication. His declining emotional satisfaction best illustrates

• A) biofeedback.
• B) relative deprivation.
• C) learned helplessness.
• D) the adaptation-level phenomenon.

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