Janet means well when she tells her daughter, "Please don’t ever date a boy with a tattoo. People with tattoos are dangerous. A
girl down the street dated a boy with a huge tattoo and he beat her up." If Janet knows other people with tattoos who are not dangerous but she holds these beliefs strongly and tells this particular story anyway, she may be engaging in:_______.
A distorted belief can be described as an ideological belief when the pro-attitude that motivates it is a preference for greater power. This means that ideological beliefs can not derive from the illegitimate action of a need, but only a desire or a reason.
Janet had observed a boy with a tattoo beating up a girl. This incident had greater power as compared to the other people who she knew having a tattoo. Hence, she formed the ideological distortion.
Arbitration: The disputing parties agree to allow an arbitrator to decide what should be done. Adjudication: The third party makes a decision on how to solve the problem, usually based on existing policy or law.
Sensory Adaptation is the reduction of our sensitivity to stimuli that do not change. Adaptation occurs after constant exposure to a stimulus, our nerve cells start firing less frequently.
Sensory adaptation is a decrease in attention to a stimulus that is not the object of conscious control.
