A Reporter Covering a Price Fixing Trial Felt That the Alleged

question 134

Multiple Choice

A reporter covering a price fixing trial felt that the alleged price fixer was a crook.The alleged price fixer testified that his boss pressured him to engage in illegal activities.The alleged price fixer felt that the reporter's stories about the trial were the product of a vindictive and nasty mind.The price fixer explained his own behaviour ________ and that of the reporter ________.

• A)situationally; situationally
• B)dispositionally; dispositionally
• C)situationally; dispositionally
• D)dispositionally; situationally
• E)desperately; consistently

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity Effect

The phenomenon that memory recall is most effective when the information available at the time of encoding is also available at the time of retrieval.

Primacy Effect

A cognitive bias that results in a person remembering information presented at the beginning of a list better than information in the middle or at the end.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented items or experiences more efficiently than those presented earlier.

TOT Effect

The Tip of the Tongue phenomenon, a state where one cannot quite recall a familiar word but feels that retrieval is imminent.