After you cough a few times, you suddenly worry that you have lung cancer, instead of several more common reasons for coughing. What are you overlooking?
a. Change blindness
b. The maximizing strategy
c. Base-rate information
d. Heuristics
c
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Your spouse withdraws attention from you each time you begin criticizing her cooking. Eventually, you stop criticizing your spouse's cooking. The withdrawal of attention can be categorized as
a. punishment. b. observational learning. c. negative reinforcement. d. modeling.
The most common form of childhood cancer is ____
a. chronic lymphoblastic leukemia b. acute lymphoblastic leukemia c. acute lymphoblastic melanoma d. non-lymphoblastic leukemia
On a fixed interval schedule, reinforcement is given for the ______
a. first correct response after a fixed amount of time has passed b. first correct response after varying amounts of time have passed c. next correct response after a fixed number of responses have occurred d. next correct response after a varying number of responses have occurred
Obese people's fat cells are bigger than normal-weight adults
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.