A group of co-workers at Acme Corporation decides to diet together. Over six months, they collectively shed 349 pounds. Now that they have lost weight, they would like to maintain their loss. Based on recommendations from the text, the group should do all but which of the following?
a. learn to control portion sizes
b. limit fat intake to less than 30% of daily calories
c. eat quickly to avoid being at the table around food
d. beware of hidden calories in items like colas and fruit drinks
e. engage in regular physical activity to help increase the metabolic rate
c
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a. clients dislike prevailing treatments. b. existing treatments are highly invasive. c. the illness affects cognitive functioning. d. no viable medical treatments exist.
When the "abstract" version of the Wason four-card problem is compared to a "concrete" version of the problem (in which beer, soda, and ages are substituted for the letters and numbers),
a. performance is better for the concrete task. b. performance is better for the abstract task. c. performance is the same for both tasks. d. performing the abstract task improves performance of the concrete task.
Suppose you are shown a description of a woman that is similar to your stereotype
of a certain sort of person, say a romance novelist. You are asked whether it is more likely that the woman in question is a department store employee or a department store employee who is also a romance novelist. If you conclude that she is more likely a department store employee who is also a romance novelist, this illustrates (a) the availability heuristic (b) using an algorithm (c) the base rates (d) the representativeness heuristic
Which of the following needs to happen in order for a child to form a gender schema?
A. Children need to be able to label their sex. B. Children need to understand that gender does not change. C. Children need to develop self-conscious emotions. D. Children need to be taught gender differences by parents.