Careful formulation of a problem may help to avoid distractions from ____
a. ?personal biases
b. ?generating diverse solutions
c. ?numerous heuristics
d. ?functional fixedness
ANSWER:
a
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a. ?primacy b. ?recency c. ?contextual d. ?interference
Shannon feels miserable in her marriage but refuses to consider getting a divorce; she feels that a divorce would completely waste all of the hard work she has put into making the marriage work for 20 years. Shannon's line of reasoning BEST illustrates the:
A) sunk-cost fallacy. B) conjunction fallacy. C) problem of codependent probabilities. D) family resemblance bias.
Which of these statements is not consistent with a sociobiological view of gender
differences in sexual behavior? (a) Most men say a partner's sexual affair would be worse than an emotional affair. (b) Most women say a partner's emotional affair would be worse than a sexual affair. (c) In Tinbergen's research, male stickleback fish decided to attack anything that was red because they learned it would help them mate with a female. (d) Polygyny is much more common than polyandry in cultures around the world.
Children acquire the __________ between the ages of 18 and 24 months, which is the
understanding that one object or behavior can represent another. Fill in the blanks with correct word