When a man's wife approaches him about the many problems in their marriage, he is puzzled and wonders privately whether his wife's concerns should cause him stress. According to Richard Lazarus, the man is engaged in
a. emotional appraisal.
b. primary cognitive appraisal.
c. secondary cognitive appraisal.
d. denial.
Answer: b. primary cognitive appraisal.
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a. they are usually measured by naturalistic observation but tend to look very different depending on whether the observations are done at home or at school b. they are usually measured by laboratory testing but may not be accurate because tests of one thing (e.g., mood) often measure other things (e.g., concentration) c. they are usually measured by maternal report but may be biased because stressed mothers may rate their children's behavior more negatively d. they are usually measured by naturalistic observation but may be biased because children know an experimenter is watching
An implication one can derive from cross-cultural research on the fundamental attribution error is that
a. situational biases are inborn. b. dispositional biases are inborn. c. dispositional and situational biases are culturally shaped. d. children respond with a situational bias, which becomes dispositional in adulthood.