Felisia finishes her psychology test and goes outside and joins a group of students who are discussing the test. Felisia asks the group, "Didn't you think those last four questions were hard? Did the teacher go over that material?" The other students agree with Felisia that the questions were extremely difficult thus giving Felisia an idea of how her opinion "stacks" up to the opinions of others
This illustrates Felisia's use of
a. social exchange.
b. group cohesiveness.
c. cognitive dissonance.
d. social comparison.
D
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