In attribution, the tendency to take credit for success and to avoid responsibility for failure is called the:
a. attribution style
b. fundamental attribution error
c. self-serving bias
d. success-failure ratio
c
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What value is estimated with a confidence interval using the t statistic?
a. The value for an unknown sample mean b. The value for an unknown population mean c. The difference between two population means d. The difference between two sample means
Jack is taking a class on Piaget, and as part of an assignment, he is "testing" someyoungsters on various Piagetian tasks. He gives four-year-old Meg a bag of white and striped marbles. They discuss the fact that marbles are made of glass. Meg counts the marbles—7 whites and 18 stripes. Jack asks, "Are there more striped marbles or more glass marbles?" Meg answers, "There are more striped
marbles." This demonstrates Meg's difficulty with a. class inclusion. b. conservation. c. identity. d. transformations.
Which of the following students provides the best summary of why a person's confidence is important to the topic of memory strategies and metacognition?
a. Asli: "In general, people are overconfident that they will remember material accurately." b. Megan: "Ironically, people are overconfident about eyewitness testimony and underconfident about material they learn in an academic setting." c. George: "People are especially likely to be overconfident if they have studied material by using the self-reference technique." d. Xavier: "People are generally overconfident when they use memory strategies and underconfident when they use metacognition."
Phencyclidine was developed as an anesthetic but abandoned for clinical use in humans because it ______.
A. destroys serotonergic neurons in the hindbrain B. causes permanent memory loss, even at low doses C. wasn't a strong enough anesthetic to be effective D. produces schizophrenic symptoms