Joyce knows three people who have multiple sclerosis. Therefore she believes her own risk of developing the disease is high, even though the actual risk is only .001 percent
Joyce's misconception is likely due to her reliance on which of the following?
a) The availability heuristi
b) The representativeness heuristic
c) The simulation heuristic
d) The recognition heuristic.
A
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Ethel looks up the phone number of a gas station and remembers it just long enough to walk over to the telephone and dial. When she is dialing, the information is contained in her
a. sensory register. b. short-term memory. c. long-term memory. d. metamemory.
A 2011 study by the Centers for Disease control found that life expectancy in the US has set a record of ___ years.
A. 73 B. 76 C. 78 D. 82
The ________ emphasizes intelligence as a product, quantifying individual differences in test scores to establish a rank order of capabilities among the participants tested
a. information-processing approach c. psychometric tradition b. cognitive approach d. educational tradition
In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, children were often viewed as:
a. innately good. c. tabula rasa. b. innately evil. d. none of these