Stella Is Very Serious About Dancing and Starts College as a Dance

Multiple Choice

Stella is very serious about dancing and starts college as a dance major. The more serious she gets about dancing, the more she worries about the pressure to succeed and the rewards associated with succeeding. She finds that dancing feels like a chore and something she has to do rather than wants to do. Her change in her views about dance is due to what social psychologists call __________.

A) cognitive appraisal
B) attribution of arousal
C) insufficient justification
D) overjustification