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Best Buy is having a great sale on a TV- the price seems too good to be true! When you go to the store to take advantage of the deal, the salesperson says that they’re already sold out of that TV, but they have another model at a higher price. Because you’re already at the store, you decide to just buy the more expensive TV. In this situation, you’ve just fallen victim to:

Please match the constructs with Affect, Behavior, or Cognition:   Discrimination

When Shawna hears about a woman who was assaulted at a party, she immediately asks questions like “what was she wearing” and “was she drinking”. Shawna believes that she, herself, would never be assaulted because she dresses conservatively and doesn’t drink. Shawna is someone who seems to have a lot of:

Selena has lupus, and finds out that she needs a kidney transplant. Her brother volunteers to give her his immediately, without expectation of reward. This willingness for family members, who share DNA, to engage in big-time acts of helping is motivated by:

Raquel knows that, if she cooperates initially, the person on the opposing side is more likely to cooperate in return. She continues her strategy by matching the moves of her opponent, which is a strategy known as:

Leroy takes part in a laboratory study through the Sona system. During this study, Leroy is told that he is competing with another person, and he must make either competitive or cooperative decisions that might help or hurt him or the other person using a payoff matrix. Because of this matrix, we can assume that the experiment in which Leroy is taking part is using the:

The _______________ is the part of the brain that is responsible for controlling aggressive impulses. It is involved in higher level cognition, which we call executive functioning.

The ___________ is the part of the brain that is responsible for regulating our perceptions of, and reactions to, aggression and fear. It is connected to the sympathetic nervous system.

Bill is a person with depression. He tends to have a negative attribution style, which means that he explains negative events by referring to _________, ________, and ______ qualities.

When it comes to helping, men are more likely to engage in help that requires __________, while women are more likely to engage in help that requires ____________.