In informal surveys, people always overestimate the number of lesbians who have AIDS. Lesbians actually have extremely low rates of AIDS, but people tend to associate lesbians with gay men (who have relatively high rates). Thus, people tend to think that they see a lesbian-AIDS relationship when in fact there is no such relationship. This is a good example of the ____
a. false consensus effect
b. illusory correlation
c. belief in a just world hypothesis
d. contrast effect
B
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An experimenter investigated the ability to concentrate under different conditions of crowding. Concentration was measured as the amount of time it took the participant to complete a word puzzle. How should the experimenter summarize the scores on the dependent variable?
a. Find the mode for crowding because crowding scores are nominal. b. Find the mean amount of crowding, if crowding scores are normally distributed. c. Find the mean amount of time it took to solve the puzzle, if time scores are normally distributed. d. Find the median amount of time it took to solve the puzzle because time scores are ordinal.
You are sitting on a stool when suddenly you lean back and fall off the stool, hitting the back of your head on the floor. You "see stars" as you try to sit back up. This sensation of "seeing stars" occurred because
a. neurons in your occipital lobe were stimulated. b. your eyes were jarred to the extent stars were seen. c. neurons in your retina were stimulated. d. neurons in your hypothalamus were stimulated.
Another term for a normal distribution is a _____ distribution.
A) standard B) Gaussian C) skewed D) bimodal
Abstract reasoning allows adolescents to
a. reason deductively. c. conserve. b. decenter. d. symbolize.