The representative heuristic describes:
a) the tendency to allocate a set of attributes to someone if they match the prototype of a given category
b) the tendency to make dispositional attributions when thinking about other peoples’ behaviour
c) the tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples of that event
d) the tendency to exaggerate how common one’s own opinions are in the general population
CORRECT = A
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a. an interaction with others. b. direct contact. c. the mean worldview. d. group membership.
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a. ?Freud b. ?Münsterberg c. ?Cattell d. ?himself e. ?Wundt
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a. if a child is aggressive, the parents were not active enough in parenting. b. if new skills are not regularly used, they will disappear. c. we are naturally more active when young and become more passive with age. d. children play an important role in shaping their own development.
While attempting to correctly answer this question, you notice that you are mentally commenting to yourself about its level of difficulty. Vygotsky would refer to these internal mental remarks as a. private speech
b. scaffolding. c. an orienting response. d. overextension.