Claiming that something is true because ‘it should be obvious" is really just _____
a. anecdotal evidence
b. an appeal to common sense
c. an appeal to authority
d. generalizability
Answer: B
Rationale: This is a claim that appears to be sound, but lacks supporting scientific evidence.
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A. Four times as many children of divorced parents enter psychological counseling as children from intact families. B. Eighteen months to 2 years after the divorce, most children begin to return to their predivorce state of psychological adjustment. C. Children who have experienced parental divorce are less likely to get divorced as adults. D. Thirty percent of divorced parents later reunite in the same household for the sake of the children.
Stephanie meets Sam at a rave. As they are talking, Sam put a drug into Stephanie's drink as she turns her head to talk to a friend. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself in bed with Sam and learnsthat he had raped her the night before, although she has no memory of the assault. It is most likely that the drug Sam put into Stephanie's drink was ____
a. ecstasy c. Rohypnol b. MDMA d. LSD
Instincts are best described as
a. inborn biological forces that motivate behavior. b. experiences that motivate behavior. c. inborn biological forces that inhibit behavior. d. experiences that inhibit behavior.
Bits of information stored in our memory are called ____
a. ?encoders b. ?memory traces c. ?bins d. ?bytes