Anita wants to spend her career studying the factors that predict whether the members of a couple are satisfied with their marriage. If she chooses to do so as a social psychologist, it is likely that her pursuit will
a. focus more on people's thoughts than on their actual behavior.
b. emphasize the importance of different personality types.
c. examine couples rather than individuals as the unit of analysis.
d. include systematic observation, description, and measurement of couples.
d
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Suppose that a student named John is asked to judge how many students are enrolled in his introductory biology class. He replies, "about 100....well, maybe between about 90 and 110." Based on the discussion of confidence intervals, you predict that
a. John's estimate probably relies too heavily on the ease with which examples come to mind. b. John is likely to be heavily influenced by the confirmation bias. c. John probably relied too heavily on the initial anchor of 100 students. d. John probably would have been wiser to use the representativeness heuristic to estimate the confidence intervals.
You are asked to close your eyes and told that your left arm is becoming more and more rigid and that it will not bend. If you cannot bend your arm during the next ten seconds, you have shown
a. hypnopompic imaging. b. hypnotic susceptibility. c. a feature of concentrative meditation. d. transient narcolepsy.
Statistics require the use of what kind of data?
A. quantitative B. qualitative C. subjective D. objective
What explains why infants and children more easily make sense of faces and sounds than other things, such as lists of words?
a. Infants and children learn the easiest things first, and then progress to harder tasks. b. Specific parts of the brain are limited to processing a narrow range of information. c. The brain and learning mechanisms can perform many tasks at once. d. There are no constraints on learning to make sense of faces and language.