If a placebo produces the same results as the real treatment, the reason must be the participants' expectations about the treatment, rather than the treatment itself
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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If you ignore base-rate information, what type of error will you probably make?
a. Doing something by yourself instead of accepting others' help b. Misidentifying some common event as some rare event c. Buying something on impulse and then regretting your decision later d. Continuing to invest your time and money in a project that is failing
Joe won $1000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. He decides that he should play the lottery more often because he will probably be more likely to win again in the future. Joe’s thinking illustrates what concept?
A. availability heuristic B. representativeness heuristic C. conjunction fallacy D. sunk cost effect E. algorithm
It is known that maturational rate is prone to genetic influence because
a. identical twins have the same genotype. b. if one twin dies, the other twin's development regresses. c. twins report that their family treated them alike. d. achievement of maturational milestones is more similar for monozygotic twins than for heterozygous twins.
What is the term that the textbook defines as an understanding of how memory works?
A. metaconfiguration B. metamemory C. metaprocessing D. metacognition