Mateo is a social psychologist who studies behaviors and psychological factors that influence how people choose items they will buy or sell. Which of the following does Mateo study?
A. standard economic model
B. behavioral economics
C. loss aversion
D. bounded rationality
Answer: B
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b. Backward eye movements do not affect understanding, but they slow down reading. c. Backward eye movements are sometimes necessary for understanding. d. Backward eye movements indicate that a reader's attention has wandered.
According to psychologists, the ability to sense the position and movement of body parts is called:
a. the vestibular sense b. kinesthesia c. sensory adaptation d. the pacinian sense
Regarding neurotransmitters, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Slight variations in neurotransmitter function may be related to temperament differences in infancy and personality differences in adulthood. b. Too much acetylcholine may cause schizophrenia. c. Too little serotonin may underlie depression. d. Some neurotransmitters are used by specific "pathways" that interlink regions of the brain which prevents the intermixing of messages.
The author suggests that, to minimize the effect of the fundamental attribution error, we should
a. become more aware of the dispositional forces that are often invisible to the observer. b. try to identify situational forces that may have caused a behavior. c. not engage in "attributional charity." d. talk to people before making judgments about their actions.