One disadvantage of showing people mug shots is that it
a. produces retroactive interference.
b. produces proactive interference.
c. increases the probability of a false identification.
d. increases the probability of not recognizing a subject.
C
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a. a typically happy and peaceful Swiss family life. b. the attention and adoration of a young and attractive mother. c. a life of ease based on his father's success in business. d. personal loneliness plus the marital conflicts and mental instability of his parents.
A negative correlation means that as one variable increases the other
a. increases. b. decreases. c. remains constant. d. increases then decreases.
The anchoring and adjustment heuristic leads people to rely on __________ to help them make decisions
a. the most reliable information they receive b. their initial views, adjusted somewhat if necessary c. information that remains stable and unchanging d. friends who have reached decisions
Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The number of seizures for each of the 20 subjects constitutes _________
a. the dependent variable c. a statistic b. data d. the independent variable