Suppose that a friend missed class and asks you to tell him, word for word, about the professor's description of the next assignment

Your description captures the basic message, even though none of your sentences is precisely what your professor said. This phenomenon is a good example of
a. abstraction.
b. boundary extension.
c. change blindness.
d. a script.


Ans: a

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

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Based on this description, this kind of therapy does NOT seem to contain elements that would characterize it as a. biomedical. b. humanistic. c. cognitive. d. behavioral.

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Professor Smith is conducting a research study on discrimination; however, he is afraid that if he tells subjects the true nature of his research they might provide a socially desirable response and skew his results

To minimize socially desired responses and skewed results Professor Smith may use ______. a. deception b. informed consent c. an intuitional review board d. a debriefing

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