Sarah was driving home after a particularly difficult day at work when someone cut her off and almost caused her to wreck her car

Still shaken from her near miss, she arrived home to find that her spouse had not yet started dinner, as he had promised to do. Sarah angrily accused him of being "a lazy bum" and started an argument with him. This situation can best be explained by ________. a) the frustration-aggression hypothesis
b) a hostile attributional bias
c) the excitation transfer theory
d) the provocation theory

c

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and beliefs we learned as children, is called the (a) ego (b) id (c) perceptual conscious (d) superego

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Marilyn thinks that she is an awful student because she just flunked a biology exam. This self-evaluation illustrates Strang's:

A) basic self-concept. B) ideal self. C) social self. D) transitory self-concept.

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