Your bill at the grocery is $9.30. You give the cashier $10.30 expecting to get a dollar bill in change. Instead, the cashier seems puzzled, counts out 70 cents in change, and leaves your 30 cents lying on the counter. The cashier's behavior illustrate
a. attribution analysis c. functional fixedness
b. mental set d. compensatory decision-making
C
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a. frontal b. parietal c. temporal d. occipital
The typical male-type finger pattern is ____
a. a longer ring finger than index finger b. similar index and ring finger lengths c. a longer index finger than ring finger d. similar index finger and middle finger lengths
When asked to name the most likely persons to die in drunk driving accidents, most people will say "innocent victims." When asked for the likely outcome in cases in which people plead "not guilty by reason of insanity,"
most people will point to cases like John Hinckley and say that the plea is successful. In both examples, the responses are wrong. What general principle leads us to make such errors? a) confirmation bias b) divergent thinking c) availability heuristic d) representativeness heuristic
In a study examining treatment approaches for individuals who had heart disease (Blumenthal et al., 2005), which group exhibited better cardiovascular functioning as well as lower levels of distress and depression?
a. the routine care group b. the music therapy group c. the movie-watching group d. the stress management and exercise groups