What usually happens when people estimate the accuracy of their answers?
a. On average, their estimates are about right
b. They are overconfident of their answers on difficult questions.
c. They are overconfident of their answers on easy questions.
d. They are underconfident of their answers to both easy and difficult questions.
b
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Mark is a Southern gentleman. He always stands up when a woman enters the room and offers her his chair. He is quick to get the doors for his female companions, and he always pays when they go out. Mark probably scores high on ____
a. hostile sexism b. benevolent sexism c. confirmation bias d. self-serving bias
Conductive deafness is primarily a problem with the auditory nerve
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Researchers who have looked at changes with age in total amounts of daily REM sleep and NREM sleep have found that
a. the amount of REM sleep increases considerably over the years. b. NREM diminishes more sharply than REM sleep over the years. c. the amount of REM sleep decreases considerably over the years. d. REM sleep remains fairly constant over the years, but NREM increases slightly.
What type of distribution is skewed to the right with more low scores than high scores?
a. Evenly distributed distribution
b. Positively skewed distribution
c. Negatively skewed distribution
d. Peaked distribution