The duping of famed author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the "Cottingley fairies" hoax reminds us of which principle of critical thinking?
A) Correlation vs. causation
B) Extraordinary claims
C) Replicability
D) Ruling out rival hypotheses
Answer: B
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A) as consultants for criminal investigators. B) in academia. C) as government researchers. D) in private practices or in partnerships.
Pons, Harris, and Rosna, identified how many different components of children's emotional understanding?
a. 3 c. 9. b. 6 d. 12
Which of the following statements would Albert Ellis agree with?
a. People's problems are acquired during psychosexual stages of development. b. People's difficulties have been acquired through the learning process. c. People's problems are the result of their faulty thinking. d. a and c
Although eye color is typically considered to be determined by dominant-recessive allelic forms of a single gene, other genes may influence it as well. In this case, eye color may be considered a _________ trait
a. phenotypic c. heterozygous b. polygenic d. codominant