Are human decision-making shortcuts people rely on to expedite their judgments about what to believe or what to do.


Ans: Cognitive heuristics

Psychology

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Renni is designing a job performance appraisal for her company that assesses how well an employee is doing his or her job. From this basic theoretical criterion, Renni will most likely ____.?

a. ?determine which one actual criterion best matches the theoretical criterion b. ?utilize a global approach to establish an operational definition of performance c. ?recommend several actual criteria that will best measure an employee’s performance d. ?utilize a facet approach to determine the most important aspects of performance

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Neglectful or even abusive parental caregiving gives rise to ____ attachment in the child

a. disorganized/disoriented b. resistant c. avoidant d. secure

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Autonomy arguments favoring assisted suicide and euthanasia are problematic because

a. it may not always be clear when someone is acting autonomously b. a person's desire to end his or her life may conflict with the desires of an individual whoseassistance is desired c. the person wishing to die may not have all the information necessary to make an informeddecision d. all of these e. none of these

Psychology

Which best describes the relationship between phonological and lexical development?

A. phonological development leads lexical development: children's first words are composed of sounds from within children's phonological inventory and children with larger inventories usually have larger vocabularies B. lexical development leads phonological development: as the size of children's lexicons gets larger, they develop more precise phonology in order to distinguish among the words. C. neither answer A nor B are true: phonological and lexical development operate wholly independently from each other. D. both answers A and B are true: the relationship between phonological and lexical development is an inter-dependent one.

Psychology