Imagine that you have just flunked a class. You evaluate this situation and decide that flunking a class is stressful and important enough to be upset about
Next you decide to repeat the class in summer school and determine that you can afford the tuition to take the class again. You have made:
a) a primary appraisal only.
b) both a primary and a secondary appraisal.
c) a secondary appraisal.
d) a hassle-related decision.
ANS: B, You have made both a primary appraisal (the decision that flunking the class is important) and a secondary appraisal (to deal with it by repeating the class).
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