Children who show unprejudiced attitudes and behaviors toward other children of differing backgrounds at school most likely developed these attitudes due to
a. child rearing.
b. a temperament trait of empathy.
c. chance conditioning.
d. mass media exposure.
A
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a. the pupil. b. the cornea. c. the retina. d. the lens.
Painful thoughts are known as
a. obsessions. b. compulsions. c. anxiety. d. panic.
Jonas always looks for evidence that supports his theory, but he never tries to find evidence that contradicts his theory. Jonas' research approach illustrates:
a. confirmation bias b. the representativeness heuristic c. the working backwards heuristic d. belief persistence
Many people drew faulty conclusions about the relative safety of air travel compared to automobile travel in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Such poor reasoning was the result of
A) thin slicing. B) hindsight bias. C) mental sets. D) the availability heuristic.