Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The representativeness heuristic causes us to erroneously judge words with “L” as their first
letter to be more common than words with “L” as their third letter.
2. Lynette has been playing roulette for an hour. The past eight spins have come up black. If
Lynette is a victim of the gambler’s fallacy, then she will tend to bet on black next time.
3. Hindsight bias causes us to believe that we “knew it all along” in predicting a surprising event.
4. Expected utility is a descriptive model of human decision making.
5. The normative model for integrating different dimensions of a complex decision is called MAUT.
1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
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In the context of brain-scanning techniques, researchers are developing hydrogel embedding methods to
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A human-factors psychologist randomly assigns half of his participants to use Keyboard A and the other half to use Keyboard B. He measures the number of words per minute typed by people in each group. He suspects that Keyboard A is designed better and will therefore facilitate a higher words-per-minute rate. He conducts an independent-samples t-test and obtains the following results: What is Cohen’s d in this example?
a. 1.44
b. 1.95
c. .067
d. .872
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)