Question

Katherine and Amy are members of the same sorority at college and are members of the school's swim team. They have been trying to master a difficult dive from the high board at the college's swimming pool. Amy is showing faster improvement in the dive than Katherine is. If they compare their performance as individuals, the self-evaluation maintenance model suggests that ______.

A) Katherine should dislike Amy more
B) Amy should dislike Katherine more
C) Katherine should like Amy more
D) neither Katherine's nor Amy's liking for each other should change
E) Amy should like Katherine more

Answer 1

Answer:

A) Katherine should dislike Amy more                                

Explanation:

In psychology, the "self-evaluation maintenance model" is also denoted as SME, and is described as a model related to behavior which aims at the process that involves the way other person's performance influences or impacts the evaluation or perception of the "self". This model signifies "how" the other individual's performance tends to impact one's "self-evaluation" in either a negative or a positive way.

In the question above, the given statement signifies that " Katherine should dislike Amy more".