Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, used a technique called "The Big Lie." He knew that people begin to believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times. The formal name for this technique is:
a. the validity effect.
b. groupthink.
c. diffusion of responsibility.
d. symbolic racism.
a
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The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddeley's model of memory?
A. The phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad B. The central executive and long-term memory C. The central executive and the phonological loop D. The phonological loop and long-term memory
A psychologist asks you to look at some pictures and tell a story about the people in them. Which test are you probably taking?
A. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) B. Picture Description Test (PDT) C. Rorschach test D. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
A recent, large-scale meta-analysis of clinical judgment studies (Spengler et al., 2009) suggests that higher levels of clinical experience
a. are associated with greatly improved prediction. b. are associated with slightly improved prediction. c. have no impact on prediction quality. d. are negatively associated with prediction quality.
Analytic thinking and intuitive thinking nearly always come up with the same conclusion
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.