Alice Goes to See a Rerun of Jaws (A Movie

Multiple Choice

Alice goes to see a rerun of Jaws (a movie about a vicious shark) a few days before she takes off to Florida on spring break. On break, she finds that she is now too nervous to spend much time actually in the water, since she is convinced that anything she sees in the water is a shark. Her heightened sensitivity is due to __________.

A) self-fulfilling prophecy
B) priming
C) anchoring and adjustment
D) representativeness