You go to the new ice cream parlor that has 48 different flavors of ice cream and 20 different toppings. According to behavioral economist Dilip Soman, having all these choices
a. tends to facilitate one's decision making.
b. tend to decrease one's decision making ability.
c. prevents one from experiencing functional fixedness.
d. often leads to one using algorithmic thinking.
B
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A behavioral psychologist tries to train a bird to climb a tree to get a reward of a piece of fruit. At first, the bird learns how to climb the tree with its legs and beak. After a while, it starts flapping its wings and hopping around before it starts to climb. Eventually, the bird flies up to the piece of fruit, even though that prevents it from getting the fruit. According to the Brelands' analysis of biological constraints, the bird is demonstrating __________.
A. response generalization B. instinctive drift C. the law of effect D. stimulus discrimination
One major disadvantage to withdrawal is ____
a. the "clouding of consciousness" many men experience just before orgasm b. the risk of infection c. the religious stigma d. it is no more effective than no method at all
In terms of identity and occupational choices:
a. the differences between women and men are vast. b. the similarities between genders exceed the differences. c. more men are becoming concerned about integrating occupational choice and family lives. d. working women do not integrate family needs into their identities.
Generalizing from research presented in the text, which of the following memory strategies would most likely lead a young child to the best recall of a group of common household items:
a. remembering that the items are all stored in the same place (e.g., in the junk drawer) b. remembering that the items all begin with the same letter (e.g., the letter "b") c. remembering that the items are all about the same size (e.g., all the size of a baseball) d. remembering that the items are all used for the same purpose (e.g., that they are all containers that hold things)