Manuel has been accepted to medical school, which he sees as a real opportunity to use his knowledge in biology and his skills with people. this situation represents the concept of in the cognitive appraisal process.

I believe that this situation represents the concept of challenge in the cognitive appraisal process.

Cognitive appraisal a theory of emotion that involves personal interpretations of people in an event to determine their emotional reaction. The most important part of this theory is the way we interpret the event (as a positive or negative occurrence), as well as what we believe caused the situation. Challenge is experienced when there is an opportunity for self-growth with available coping strategies, whereas threat is experienced when the situation is perceived as leading to failure with no available strategies to cope with it. We hypothesized that participants who appraised the situation as a challenge would perform better and adapt better to changes under difficult goal conditions, as compared with general goals or strategy goals.

d is the correct answer.

b is incorrect because it makes food by itself

c is incorrect because us humans don't know how to produce their own food using the sun like plants.

a is incorrect because consumers can depend on carnivores for eating food for consumers to eat the dead organism. same thing with omnivores.

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