Kat is a good student, but she is sick during one test and can’t focus; therefore, she doesn’t do as well as she would have liked. She is sure that this is the beginning of her academic decline and that her GPA will plummet, leading to difficulties

to finding a job later. This is an example of ___________ .


a. catastrophizing
b. flexibility
c. emotional contagion
d. anger communication

Answer: a

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If you want to use fear appeals in a presentation, you should consider using any or all of the following strategies except:

a. Threaten their freedom to believe and behave as they wish. b. Scare the heck out of listeners. c. Discuss solutions as well as problems. d. Emphasize the costs and harms of not taking any action. e. Emphasize the benefits of taking action.

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A criterion is a standard or yardstick by which we may measure or evaluate something and which, according to Ross, may be agreed upon by the group and weighted

A. True B. False

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