Gina, a 15-Year-Old, Needs to Assess a Risky Situation to Quickly

Multiple Choice

Gina, a 15-year-old, needs to assess a risky situation to quickly get the gist of what is happening and glean that the situation is a dangerous context. She is unlikely to benefit from engaging in reflective, detailed, higher-level cognitive analysis about a decision, especially as it is a high-risk, real-world context where she would get bogged down in trivial detail. This kind of decision making is explained by the

A) cognitive model of emotion.
B) fuzzy-trace theory dual-process model.
C) tripartite model.
D) heuristic-systematic persuasion model.