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

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Felisia is using social comparison, which is the process of evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself to others. In this scenario, she is comparing her perception of the test's difficulty with that of her peers to gauge her own opinions and possibly her performance.

Felisia Finishes Her Psychology Test and Goes Outside and Joins