Jonas bought a new leather jacket after saving for many months for the luxury purchase. On the first day he went out wearing the new garment, he found a $50 bill on the sidewalk outside of his office. He now refers to the jacket as his "lucky jacket" and believes that it has some magical power to give him good fortune. Jonas's belief in the jacket's cosmic ability is an example of
a. the availability heuristic.
b. an illusory correlation.
c. selective attention.
d. the falsification principle.
b
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Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context), they could identify
A. 100 percent of the words spoken by their own voices. B. 50 percent of the words spoken by their own voices. C. 50 percent of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs. D. none of the words spoken by others.
Which element is NOT an aspect of the negative cognitive triad?
a. the self b. the personal world c. the past d. the future
LSD is a drug that
A) Timothy Leary advocated. B) causes delusions and bizarre behaviors. C) Cary Grant used as part of therapy. D) is a fungus derivative. E) all of these.
Research evidence suggests that repeated exposure to non-violent pornography
A) decreases male aggression towards women. B) loosens traditional sexual and family values. C) increases acceptance of rape myths in both men and women. D) results in more extramarital affairs.