Alicia leaves her office building only to find it is raining. She returns to her office and gets a trash bag out of the supply cabinet. Using a pair of scissors, she cuts the bag so that she can put her head and arms through the bag without getting wet
In using the trash bag as a makeshift rain jacket, Alicia has overcome
a. functional fixedness.
b. confirmation bias.
c. creativity bias.
d. confirmation fixedness.
a
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Pierre's secondgrade teacher is very critical of all his work. She rarely praises him and frequently ridicules even his best efforts. As a result, Pierre is reluctant to attempt new tasks. Erikson's theory predicts that Pierre is likely to end up with a sense of
a. mistrust. b. guilt. c. inferiority. d. shame and doubt. e. insecurity.
Researchers see a decline in gender-stereotyped behavior throughout early childhood.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
People in most cultures feel angry in response to an insult, but they often disagree about how an insult is defined
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The use of the principles of chance to assign participants to treatment and control groups for the purpose of avoiding systematic bias is called
a. randomization. c. random dispersion. b. random assignment. d. random variability.