A tendency to select wrong answers because they seem to match pre existing mental categories is called
a. intuition.
b. representativeness heuristic.
c. base rate.
d. framing.
Answer: b. representativeness heuristic.
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In which of the following cases is it most useful to pool the variances?
a. s12 = 7.3, N1 = 15 and s22 = 8.1, N2 = 15 b. s12 = 7.3, N1 = 15 and s22 = 52.3, N2 = 6 c. s12 = 8.4, N1 = 13 and s22 = 12.1, N2 = 19 d. none of the above
As children acquire representational skills, they gain the ability to
a. make their wishes come true. b. compare their performance to the performance of others. c. communicate about the past and create imagined experiences. d. move more freely in the environment.
The ______ are the number of scores that can vary in a set of scores with a known mean.
A. sum of squares B. calculation deviations C. sample means D. degrees of freedom
Individuals who learned two languages in childhood show brain activity for both languages in ______; individuals who learned another language later in life show brain activity for the second language in ______.
A. the same area; the same area B. the same area; a different brain area C. different brain areas; the same area D. different brain areas; different brain areas