When people form judgments about everyday events, the feature-matching process

a. usually leads to inaccurate perceptions of a given event.
b. usually leads people to select the right schema to encode a given event.
c. usually creates a mismatch between the features of a schema and a given event.
d. ensures that irrelevant or superficial features of a given event will not influence a person's
schema.


b. usually leads people to select the right schema to encode a given event.

Psychology

You might also like to view...

Because the news report of a plane crash was fresh in her mind, Lara decided flying was just too risky. Her risk estimate appears to have been influenced by:

a. a framing effect b. functional fixedness c. the representativeness heuristic d. the availability heuristic

Psychology

Standardized tests of intelligence are based on the assumption that

a. IQ scores are normally distributed in the population. b. most individuals differ from the mean score by fifteen points. c. IQ scores are an accurate measure of intelligence. d. the standard deviation of IQ scores is one hundred.

Psychology

In a two-factor analysis of variance a main effect is defined as the ____

A) ?mean differences among the levels of one factor B) ?mean differences among all treatment conditions C) ?mean difference between the two factors D) ?difference between the largest treatment mean and the smallest treatment mean

Psychology

The membrane that lines the eyelids and attaches to the eye around the cornea is called the

A) sclera. B) vitreous humor. C) conjunctiva. D) cornea. E) iris.

Psychology