One explanation for the primacy effect is that
a. information obtained early is usually more important than information obtained later.
b. people tend to pay closer attention to central trait information.
c. the meaning of information obtained later is often altered to fit with earlier impressions.
d. people tend to seek out the most reliable sources of information earlier.
c
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A. athletics. B. project Head Start. C. ballet. D. project Get Ready.
Implicit memory is ________:
A) brief B) similar to iconic storage C) a metaphor D) nonconscious activation E) nonconscious
You believe that bad things are more likely to happen to other people but good things are more likely to happen to yourself. This is termed ______________
a. overconfidence barrier b. counterfactual thinking c. optimistic bias d. illusion of control
Describe the ways in which scientific explanations may fail. Offer suggestions on how to avoid faulty scientific explanations.
What will be an ideal response?