Cleo's job requires a lot of airline travel, but she had never really worried about her safety until she read about three airline crashes within a two-week period. She decided that air travel was unsafe, and now she drives or takes the train whenever she has to travel on business. In this case, Cleo's decision to avoid traveling by air may have been influenced by:
a. the framing effect
b. functional fixedness
c. the availability heuristic
d. the representativeness heuristic
C
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a. paranoid b. histrionic c. antisocial d. narcissistic
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for
a. being involved in providing instructions through which individuals could bring about their own deaths b. providing individuals with a "suicide machine" through which they could control the administration of a series of eventually lethal drugs c. being directly involved in an act of euthanasia d. all of these e. none of these
Dr. Maloff is studying the effects of ethnic bias on the school performance of immigrant children. Most likely, Dr. Maloff is a __________ psychologist
a. psychoanalytic c. sociocultural b. behavioral d. school
In what three types of contexts are infants most likely to remember events?
What will be an ideal response?