If a"psychic" begins a "reading" by making general statements about a person and then plays "hot and cold" by attending to
the person's facial expressions, body language, or tone of voice in order to continue or drop a line of thought, the psychic is using a set of techniques known as--------------------.
Fill in the blank with correct word
cold reading
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Roger overhears loud voices in the apartment next door, and immediately assumes that his neighbors are engaged in a domestic battle. He then talks on the phone with his friend Lamont, and learns that his friend had a very bad day: Lamont lost his job AND discovered a large dent in his car. Roger jumps to some quick conclusions. "Someone is trying to attack you," he advises Lamont. "They dented
your car on purpose. It is probably no accident that you lost your job this week either; someone there is out to get you!" Roger's quick assumptions about others' intentions indicate a ____. a. Type A attributional bias b. hostile expectation bias c. hostile perception bias d. fundamental attribution error
Which case is correctly matched with the issue it is used to illustrate?
a. Brian David Mitchell—involuntary commitment b. Andrea Yates—competence to stand trial c. BL ("bag lady")—determination sanity d. Tarasoff—therapist's obligation to breach confidentiality
Molasses are used in the distillation of _________
a. rum b. brandy c. whiskey d. vodka
Jill's friends tell her they think she has a really good memory. She finds this interesting so she decides to purposefully test her memory. Jill receives a list of to-do tasks each day at work. Usually, she checks off each item as the day progresses, but this week, she is determined to memorize the to-do lists. On Monday, Jill is proud to find that she remembers 95 percent of the tasks without
referring to the list. On Tuesday, her memory drops to 80 percent, and by Thursday, she is dismayed to see her performance has declined to 20 percent. Jill's memory is declining over the course of the week because other information she encounters is "competing" with that which she memorized on Monday. This process is called a. anterograde amnesia. b. episodic buffering. c. chunking. d. proactive interference.