Tracy feels that children have free will and should be given options. but tracy finds that she can get her kids to do more chores around the house if she mentions a punishment for not doing them rather than a reward for doing them. what is affecting the kids' decision to do chores?

Framing effect

Explanation:

The framing effect is a term in which our words, settings, and our situation affect our principle of choices. This is a term that comes with the loss and gains profit. People focus most of the time the loss perceived as more worthy than the same range gain or profit. For instance, there is ad-related to yogurt. At one cup it is written that yogurt is only 20% fat and on the other hand on another cup, there is written 80% free fat. People will more focus or pay attention to eighty percent free fat rather than with twenty percent fat. This is the framing of words that affect our decision making. The framing effect is the greatest bias in decision making.  

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