Randall believes that aliens are currently living deep under the ocean. When looking for information about this on the Internet, he ignores any sites that are skeptical of his belief and only visits sites that support his belief. This is an example of
a. functional fixedness.
b. confirmation bias.
c. creativity bias.
d. confirmation fixedness.
b
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Upon repeated applications of the same test, performance on the second application may be affected by previous experience on the test. This is known as
a. attenuation. b. a carryover effect. c. shrinkage. d. selected recall.
When considering why college student Waldo just cheated on his exam, which theorist would be most focused on whether Waldo lived with relatives who he had observed cheating?
a. Bandura b. Freud c. Piaget d. Kohlberg
Which statement concerning sexual activity and adulthood is true?
a. There has been a significant increase in incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in middle-aged Americans. b. Middle-aged women are more likely than middle-aged men to use frequency of intercourse as the key indicator of sexual satisfaction. c. Men ages 75-85 are less likely to be sexually active than their female age peers. d. The book HIV Wisdom for Older Woman was designed to educate grandmothers in how to talk to grandchildren about sexually transmitted diseases.
According to studies of achievement and locus of control, someone who is an external in college is likely to have
A. better grades than internals in college. B. received lower scores on achievement tests in high school. C. performed better on academic tests in elementary school than high school. D. all of the above