Although there is a high rate of failure for starting new
businesses, people still readily open new businesses every year. These decisions probably would not occur if people did not
a. ignore the base rate.
b. use the representative heuristic.
c. frame this event very broadly.
d. use a random search strategy for making decisions.
ANSWER: a
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According to Freud, repression:
A) drives people to actively fulfil their unconscious desires. B) removes unacceptable thoughts and desires from consciousness and keeps them in the unconscious. C) allows people to experience unconscious desires and impulses without feeling ashamed. D) creates new memories based on previous experiences.
The tendency to think in "all-or-none" terms is characteristic of
A) antisocial personality disorder. B) borderline personality disorder. C) paranoid schizophrenia. D) a dissociative fugue.
What technique is used when patients relate thoughts, feelings, or images without modifying them?
a) hypnosis b) dream analysis c) primary analysis d) free association
Who is likely to help more, women or men?
A) Women, because they are socialized to be kinder and more compassionate. B) Men, because they are socialized to exert heroic efforts on behalf of others. C) It depends on whether the required help conforms to the socially approved feminine or masculine gender role. D) It depends on the number of bystanders present.