Sharon knows that a particular genetic disorder tends to run in families and that several of her family members have developed this disorder. Sharon has made an appointment to see a genetic counselor, who will probably be able to tell Sharon __________
a) how likely she is to develop the disease and how likely she is to pass on a genetic defect to her children.
b) how likely she is to develop the disease, but not how likely she is to pass on a genetic defect to her children.
c) how likely she is to pass on a genetic defect to her children, but not how likely she is to develop the disease.
d) neither how likely she is to pass on a genetic defect to her children nor how likely she is to develop the disease.
a
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b. They generalize their aversion to all familiar tastes. c. They avoid the taste only in the location where they drank it. d. They learn even if the taste and illness are separated by hours.
You hear Tiger Woods doing a radio commercial for Buick. Even though you know that Woods did not write the commercial himself, was paid to provide the voice-over for the commercial, and probably does not drive a Buick in real life, you still think that at some level, Woods must think highly of Buicks. This is an example of the
a. actor-observer effect. b. false-consensus bias. c. availability heuristic d. fundamental attribution error.
While people are more likely to celebrate individual and cultural differences in most aspects of human life, people are less tolerant of sexual diversity
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to research cited in the text, both black and white officers were significantly more likely to perceive black drivers as disrespectful, noncompliant, and/or resistant.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)