Sophia voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. She believes that approximately 90 percent of college students also voted for Obama, when in reality that number is much lower. Sophia's overestimation is consistent with the
a. false-consensus effect.
b. confirmation bias.
c. self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. representativeness heuristic.
a
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a. failed to verify his subjective assessment of traits. b. yielded results comparable to his eight prominent categories of traits. c. expanded his eight trait categories to more than 200 traits. d. proved irrelevant to his initial assessment of the eight categories of traits.
Who will spend the most time in REM sleep during the course of a 24-hour period?
A. a 60-year-old man B. a 35-year-old woman C. a 10-year-old boy D. a 6-month-old girl
Informed consent involves three elements: information, understanding, and volunteering. Describe how the intent of informed consent can be compromised by limitations in any one of these three elements
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The extent to which the conclusions in an experiment are logical and justified because nothing was allowed to vary except the changes in the manipulated and measured variables is called _____
a. external reliability c. internal validity b. internal reliability d. external validity