Marylou is making her famous chili. Instead of measuring the amount of chopped peppers to add, she knows that a handful is "usually about right." This illustrates the use of a(n) ________
a. heuristic.
b. prototype.
c. algorithm.
d. mental image.
Answer: a
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Marge has gone to doctors with more than twenty different somatic complaints in the past year and has had surgery four times. She has few anxiety or depressive symptoms, but doctors never satisfy her when they say, "There's nothing wrong with you physically." What is unusual about this patient?
a. People with somatic symptom disorders rarely shop around for doctors. b. People with somatic symptom disorders usually show only one physical complaint. c. Somatic symptom disorder often includes depression and anxiety. d. Somatic symptom disorder affects mostly males.
To minimize reactivity, researchers conducting naturalistic observations may ____
a. ?attempt to control the variable being studied b. ?inform the participants in the study about the hypotheses being tested c. ?debrief participants extensively d. ?observe from a discrete distance or via a video feed
Several suicides committed within the same group of people in a brief period are referred to as
cult suicides. pact suicides. planned suicides. cluster suicides.
A friend is taking a drug awareness class. One of the things he learns is that LSD, a hallucinogenic drug that produces bizarre sensory experiences, is believed to work because it
a. suppresses the effect of serotonin neurons. b. increases the production of serotonin. c. enhances the effect of serotonin, which is normally excitatory. d. removes serotonin from the body.