Last year, Fiona had a yard sale. She marked the prices of items very reasonably, and she refused to reduce them when people tried to "deal.". This year, she had another yard sale, but this time, she marked the prices of items quite high, and then reduced them by 50% or more when people asked to "deal.". Fiona was surprised to find that she made much more money this year. When she asks you why
this might have happened, you explain how judgments can be affected by
a. absolute thresholds.
b. sensory adaptation.
c. contrast effects.
d. subliminal comparitors.
C
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a. first analyze it into parts, and then assemble the parts into a whole. b. use a visual template that precisely matches the shape of the entire stimulus. c. recognize it in terms of its overall structure and shape. d. compare it with a set of features stored in memory.
Signet Air recently hired a psychologist to help redesign the cockpit of a new aircraft. The goal is to reduce the probability of pilot error in reading the instrument panel. The psychologist the company hired is most likely:
a. a human factors psychologist b. a social psychologist c. a developmental psychologist d. an industrial/organizational psychologist
As your textbook points out, many people are willing to endure very bad circumstances—going hungry, living in dangerous neighborhoods—because they are passionate about their professions. This is particularly important for artists, actors, singers, and oth
A) extraordinary claims. B) Occam's Razor. C) replicability. D) falsifiability.
Imagine you are a prominent scholar in the field of parenting. You are most likely to describe parenting in terms of what two dimensions?
a. Demandingness and responsiveness b. Ideal and real c. Traditional and modern d. Punishment and indifference