Most people would guess that more women die of breast cancer than of heart disease, even though the opposite is true. People might be misled, because we hear about breast cancer quite a bit in the media. Thus, we fall victim to
a. confirmation bias.
b. the availability bias.
c. an anchoring bias.
d. divergent thinking.
e. a mental set.
b. the availability bias.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Galton's measures of intellectual functioning assumed correlation between intelligence and ____
a. acuteness of the senses b. reaction times to stimuli c. Fechner's Law d. average error in psychophysics tasks e. just noticeable differences
A cultural cause of prejudice is that it ________
a. helps people bond to their own ethnic group. b. encourages acculturation. c. increases disobedience. d. replaces official forms of discrimination.
______, such as hearing voices or seeing things that aren't really there, are not uncommon in someone diagnosed with schizophrenia.
-Paranoia -Flat affects -Delusions -Hallucinations