Question

After twenty minutes of waiting outside the train station for your friend to pick you up, you decide to go to the pay phone to make a call. Standing a short distance from you is a kind-looking older woman. "Would you mind watching my back pack so I can go make a quick phone call?

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is "an implicit personality theory."

Explanation:

An implicit personality theory describes the belief of people that certain personality characteristics will most likely co-occur in people. This happens when you get an impression based on very little information and then apply it to a strange person. For example, because a friend of yours with a good sense is humor is intelligent, you conclude that people with good sense of humor are intelligent. From the example, the woman is old and looks kind, thus she cannot steal. This is simply implicit personality theory.