Arkes and Freedman's "baseball game" experiment asked participants to indicate whether the following sentence was present in a passage they had previously read about events in a game: "The batter was safe at first." Their findings showed inaccurate memories involved
a. omissions of information that was presented.
b. participants who did not understand baseball and assumed more information was presented than actually was.
c. creations from inferences based on baseball knowledge.
d. confusions about presented information when it was ambiguous.
c
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What will be an ideal response?
On Fridays, you know that you can dress casually for work, but on Wednesdays when the corporate executive usually drops by, you know you should dress in your best suit. This illustrates
a. operant stimulus discrimination. b. delayed reinforcement. c. classical conditioning. d. operant stimulus generalization.
Rogers calls psychologically healthy people ______________ persons
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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a. analytical; creative c. creative; analytical b. practical; logical d. none of these