According to the textbook, ____________ are mental shortcuts that provide serviceable but often inexact answers to common judgmental problems.
a. pluralistic judgments
b. base rates
c. mental deliberations
d. heuristics
d. heuristics
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By the conclusion of the preoperational stage, children are able to understand the idea that actions, events, and outcomes are related to one another in fixed patterns. This is called __________.
A. identity diffusion B. functionality C. intuitive thought D. egocentrism
Which of the following terms means "without oxygen?"
a. Toxemia b. Anoxia c. Plastemia d. Hypoxia
Jayson accidentally bumped into a guy as he was walking down the street. He anticipates that the fellow will assume the "bump" was purposeful and will react aggressively. Jayson is exhibiting the ____ bias
a. hostile attribution b. hostile perception c. hostile expectation d. indirect expectation
A brain structure that appears to be involved with addiction to nicotine is the a. nucleus accumbens. b. area postrema
c. locus coeruleus. d. raphe nucleus.