You continue playing a boring video game because it was expensive and you don't want to waste the money. This action is an example of what?
a. Framing effect
b. Functional fixedness
c. Sunk cost effect
d. Availability heuristic
c
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An experimenter filled two jars with sugar. Participants then chose to label either jar "sucrose, table sugar" and the other jar "not sodium cyanide, not poison.". Then the participants could use either jar to make Kool-Aid. What did the results indicate? a. People tend to prefer longer statements to shorter statements. b. People don't pay much attention to labels on products
c. People like adventure and excitement. d. People tend to distrust negative statements.
Sally steps on her bathroom scale, and it tells her that she weighs 145 pounds. When she steps on it again after her shower, she gets the same result. In fact, it has told her that her weight is stable at 145 pounds for several days now. Based on her observations, what can more accurately be said about the measurements provided by Sally's scale? a. The measurements lack reliability. b. The
measurements lack validity. c. The measurements are reliable. d. The measurements are valid.
As a result of reading several research articles on the long-term effects of daycare, a state legislature passes a new law mandating that all daycare providers modify their practices to be in consistent with this research. This action reflects a. how research can affect social policy
b. the benefits of doing meta-analytic research. c. the importance of longitudinal studies. d. why correlational research is superior in some ways to experimental research.
Erikson is best known for his eight stages of psychosocial development. Consider the stage of trust versus mistrust and (A) identify when this stage occurs; (B) give a general description of a positive and negative development of this stage
What will be an ideal response?