The tendency of individuals who believe that AIDS is something that happens to "other people," such as homosexual men, tend to remember articles about rates of infection among homosexual men more than articles about AIDS cases among people like
themselves is an example of the ______.
a. availability heuristic c. representativeness heuristic
b. idealized cognitive model d. confirmation bias
D
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Which of the following individuals would be most likely to abuse alcohol?
a. ?a Korean female b. ?a Korean male c. ?a Chinese female d. ?a Chinese male
Elmer is attending speech therapy classes because he has a frontal lisp, that is, he mispronounces the "s" sound as a "th.". For example, he might say that "the thun thines in the morning.". Elmer is exhibiting a problem with
a. syntax. b. transformations. c. morphemes. d. phonemes.
Evolutionary Psychology
a. studies ways in which adaptation and natural selection can be applied to mental processes and behavior. b. suggests that social behavior evolves and can be transmitted from one generation to the next. c. suggests that traits such as aggression and altruism help organisms survive and thus reproduce. d. suggests all of these.
Some teratogens have a threshold effect whereby they are virtually harmless until exposure reaches a certain level
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.