Question

Two women went to see King Solomon. They were in conflict because each claimed to be the mother of a baby. Because King Solomon was a neutral party and considered very wise, they wanted him to decide what should happen with the baby. What best describes what the women wanted King Solomon to do?

a.Create a social trap

b.Orchestrate a prisoner's dilemma

c.Commit the fundamental attribution error

d.Groupthink

e.Arbitration

Answer 1

Option A is incorrect as social trap involves short term gains. here no short term gains are present .

Option B is incorrect As this dilemma is related to prisoners who act in their self interest .

Option C is incorrect . It is irrelevant to the above situation

Option D is incorrect .It is a process which takes place in a group to arrive and achieve consensus .

Option E is correct. Arbitration is a process in which two conflicting parties submit their conflict to an arbitrator. In our case king solomon is the arbitrator .King solomon will make a decision which will be binding for both of them