You caution a friend about eating so many foods that are high in fat content. Your friend replies that his grandfather ate all the bacon and cheese he wanted and he lived to be 93 . Which of the following is the BEST explanation for your friend's error in reasoning?
a. the Barnum effect
b. the use of individual cases
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy
d. the fallacy of negative instances
B
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Criminal interrogations can result in misleading information if an interrogator is highly active because
a. they make the suspect nervous and prone to make misleading statements. b. the suspect's activity level increases, which increases the interrogator's suspiciousness. c. hyperactive interrogators tend to miss important cues given by the suspect. d. active interrogators tend to cause the suspect to clam up and refuse to make a statement.
Rich performed a two-tailed test for an experiment in which n=20 . He could not find his t critical values table but he remembered the tcv at df = 15 . He decided to compare his tobt to this tcv. Is he more likely to make a Type I or a Type II error in this situation?
What will be an ideal response?
Stewie cannot understand the meaning of other people's tones of voice. When Brian sarcastically says, "Yeah, way to go, wise guy," Stewie does not pick up on his tone and takes his statement literally. Stewie most likely has __________ aprosodia.
A. receptive B. expressive C. ideational D. ideomotor
On a variable-interval schedule, reinforcement is given for the __________
a. first correct response after a fixed amount of time has passed b. first correct response after varying amounts of time have passed c. next correct response after a fixed number of responses have occurred d. next correct response after a varying number of responses have occurred