Donna is about 25 pounds overweight. instead of taking action, she defends her weight with the explanation that almost all of her relatives are overweight and that none have been successful with attempts to lose weight. donna’s excuse can best be described as: being unmotivated having an external locus of control having an internal locus of control being a victim of heredity

Having an external locus of control          

Explanation:

Locus of control are of two different types including:

1. External locus of control.

2. Internal locus of control.

External locus of control: In psychology, the term external locus of control is defined as the phenomenon in which an individual believes that his or her failures or successes depend on the external factors which are beyond his or her control, for example, circumstance, bias, fate, luck, injustice, etc.

In the question above, Donna’s excuse can best be described as having an external locus of control.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.

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