Four-Year-Old Astrid Does Not Like to Get Dressed Early in the Morning

Multiple Choice

Four-year-old Astrid does not like to get dressed early in the morning to go to day care, so rather than simply telling her to put on the clothes he laid out the night before, her father has begun to lay out several outfits and, in the morning, asking her which outfit she wants to wear that day. Astrid's father is making use of the idea of ____.

A) the status quo
B) omission bias
C) reactance
D) dissonance