If a motorcycle cop believes that young female drivers speed more than other drivers, he will likely notice young female drivers speeding in the fast lane but fail to notice young male or older drivers doing the same. In this case, the police officer's judgments are skewed by the operation of the
A. permission schema.
B. confirmation bias.
C. falsification principle.
D. typicality principle.
Answer: B
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A. sequential bilingualism B. emergent literacy C. simultaneous bilingualism D. associative learning
The ____ component of working memory serves as the interface between working and long-term memory
a. episodic buffer b. semantic buffer c. executive control system d. visuospatial sketchpad
Intervening variables are abstract concepts that link _________ to _________
a. control variables; dependent variables b. independent variables; control variables c. independent variables; dependent variables d. basic research; applied research
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A. the Psychological Bulletin. B. the Psychological Abstracts. C. the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). D. the Annual Review of Psychology.