Which of the following kinds of thinking can help explain the first instinct fallacy?

a. ironic processing
b. counterfactual thinking
c. illusion of control
d. automatic processing


B

Psychology

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a. cross-sectional b. correlational c. experimental d. naturalistic observation

Psychology

Measures of central tendency

a. present numbers in a pictorial format. b. describe a "typical" score in a distribution. c. allow one to generalize from small samples. d. indicate how scores differ from each other.

Psychology

As infants mature they store information

a. more slowly and in greater quantities. c. more rapidly and in smaller quantities. b. more rapidly and in greater quantities d. more slowly and in smaller quantities.

Psychology

According to Bruner, the goal of cognitive psychology is to understand

a. genetic structure. b. stimuli. c. information processing. d. the mind and how it achieves meaning.

Psychology