The _____ effect refers to individuals overestimating the degree to which other individuals think or act the way they do.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: false consensus effect
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People tend to say that they would prefer to have $1000 today rather than $1200 two weeks from now—even though, logically, they would be better off with the $1200 in two weeks. The phenomena underlying this tendency is known as ____
a. risk aversion b. the certainty effect c. temporal discounting d. the status quo bias
A friend of yours says, "I heard that suicide is correlated with depression and feeling hopeless. However, those who those who commit suicide rarely suffer from a mental disorder or abuse of substances. In fact, when people are at the depths of depression, they are most likely to commit suicide." Which portion of your friend's statement is accurate?
a. Suicide is correlated to depression and feeling hopeless. b. Suicide is most likely committed during the depths of depression. c. Those who those who commit suicide rarely suffer from a mental disorder. d. Those who those who commit suicide rarely abuse substances.
The ____ is commonly called the average
a. mean b. median c. mode d. range
Remembering the first and last items of a list better than items in the middle is due to
a. the tip-of-the-tongue state. b. redintegration. c. the serial position effect. d. the pseudo-memory effect.