Sixteen-year-old Haley uses a tanning bed several times a week. When asked if she is concerned about skin cancer, she answers that she is not, and then adds that older people with fairer skin are much more likely to get skin cancer than she is. Haley's answer illustrates:
A) the availability heuristic.
B) optimism bias.
C) the conjunction fallacy.
D) the sunk-cost fallacy.
B) optimism bias.
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Anya is female. She is infertile and has trouble with visual-spatial skills and mathematics, and also struggles with her nonverbal memory. She most likely has
a. Turner syndrome. b. Single X syndrome. c. Triple Y syndrome. d. "Superfemale" syndrome.
The existence of transitional probabilities adds a(n) ________ quality to learning and using language.
A. cultural B. anticipatory C. reductive D. intellectual
Zelda was presented the list, "hat, dog, rock, pen, hair, lake, cloud, rug, and sheet" in a short-term memory experiment. Her most likely error would be:
a. saying "pear" instead of "hair" b. saying "pond" instead of "lake" c. forgetting "sheet" entirely d. forgetting "hat" entirely
Most scores fall within the 3 standard deviations of the population mean.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)