The modern notion of the automatic system is BEST understood as ____
a. a kind of conscious mind that warns you of danger based on immediate cognitive processes
b. a kind of conscious mind that helps you in decision-making
c. a kind of unconscious that is there to make your life easier
d. a Freudian kind of unconscious full of repressed urges and thoughts that you are afraid to think
C
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When politicians point out that their misdeeds are miniscule when judged against their competitors, they are making use of
a. the door-in-the-face technique. b. comparators. c. bottom-up processing. d. top-down processing.
Jorge just received an A+ on a physics exam. If you make an external attribution for this event, what might you thinking?
a. "So what! The exam was really easy. I would have gotten an A+ too." b. "Well, I'm still not that impressed. All Jorge ever does is study. If I studied all the time I would get grades like that too." c. "Jorge must have some sort of natural gift for physics; he is really smart!" d. "Jorge is probably really good at physics, but I bet he does really badly in all of his other classes."
One of the risks taken by parents who allow their children to watch television unsupervised is that they will begin to view the world as a dangerous and threatening place. This is an example of the role of which of the following in attitude formation?
a. indirect experience b. mass media c. child rearing d. chance conditioning
Inferential statistics _________
a. is the same as descriptive statistics b. also uses methods of descriptive statistics c. allows one to make inferences about a sample based on population data d. allows one to make inferences about a population based on sample data e. also uses methods of descriptive statistics and allows one to make inferences about a population based on sample data