Frank mistakenly believes that there are more
words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to the ________.
a) representativeness heuristic
b) availability heuristic
c) planning fallacy
d) confirmation bias
ANS: b
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On average, how does sadness affect decision making? a. Sad people tend to evaluate the evidence more carefully before deciding
b. Sad people tend to make quick, impulsive decisions that they regret later. c. Sad people tend to prefer a large, later reward instead of a quicker, smaller reward. d. Sad people tend to be overconfident of their decisions.
Claude has been seeing a therapist in an attempt to finally stop smoking. The therapist has described a number of specific techniques that they might try to eliminate Claude's behavior of smoking. In this case, his therapist's approach to treatment would MOST likely be classified as
a. insight therapy. b. biomedical therapy. c. homeopathic therapy. d. behavior therapy.
The psychological refractory period refers to the ________ between the length of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) and the speed of responding to a second stimulus
a. inverse relation b. positive relation c. direct relation d. none of the above.
Which of the following has been shown in cross-cultural research on moral domains:
A) children from other countries do not always distinguish among the three domains B) the content of social conventions is constant across cultures C) the content of personal issues is constant across cultures D) children judge violations in the moral domain as most serious