n 1992, Ross Perot asked voters, "Should the president have the line-item veto to eliminate waste?" Ninety-seven percent said yes. When the question was asked in more neutral terms—"Should the president have the line item veto or not?"—only 57 percent agreed. This example best illustrates
a. the availability heuristic.
b. spin framing.
c. an order effect.
d. feature matching
b. spin framing.
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The phenothiazines are effective in reducing schizophrenic symptoms by:
a. reducing the size of brain ventricles b. blocking or reducing the effects of dopamine c. increasing the effects of dopamine d. blocking or reducing the effects of hormones
Which of the following abilities is a hallmark of adult adaptive thought?
applying both objective and subjective thinking to real-life problems recognizing the logic of an argument ignoring subjective feelings and personal experience reasoning abstractly
Hyperthymesia results in
A. superior procedural memory. B. inferior procedural memory. C. inferior episodic memory. D. superior episodic memory.
Twenty-nine-year-old Ginny, though having a strong sense
of who she is, has not yet been able to find that significant other for whom she has been searching. She has decided that being on her own is a perfectly acceptable choice and is learning to enjoy it. What psychosocial stage of development best describes Ginny? a) industry vs. inferiority b) intimacy vs. isolation c) generativity vs. stagnation d) identity vs. role confusion