The decision-making process that involves making a decision on the basis of certain features that are similar to a stereotyped model is called ______
a. compensatory decision modeling c. the representativeness heuristic
b. hill-climbing d. the availability heuristic
C
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Which of the following sentences would be most difficult for a 2-year-old to understand?
a. "Mommy went to the store to get some milk.". b. "The food is eaten by the dog.". c. "The car hit the truck.". d. "The cat chased the mouse.".
A clear case of test bias is when regression lines describing the relationship between test and criterion for two different groups
a. are parallel, but have different intercepts. b. have the same slope and the same intercept. c. have different slopes. d. are based on two different means for the test.
Consider the following (fictitious) conclusion reached by a social psychologist: "After analyzing a sample of over 578 experiments, we have concluded that the question of whether men are more likely than women to help is difficult to answer
Based on the findings of this large number of studies, we have concluded that men are more likely to help when helping demands physical risk or ‘chivalry'; otherwise, there are no reliable gender differences in helping." This conclusion about the reliability of the relationship between gender and helping was most likely based on a. pure conjecture. b. surveys of researchers. c. meta-analytic techniques. d. experimental procedures.
Scotomas are located by
A) triangulation. B) perimetry. C) topography. D) scotometry. E) scatology.