Isabella goes to a fortune teller who tells her, "You are the type of person who is very outgoing and sociable, yet at times you enjoy being alone."
Isabella thinks this captures her personality amazingly well, because she finds many instances in her memories of such behaviors. Isabella has just fallen prey to the
a. base rate heuristic.
b. priming effect.
c. Barnum effect.
d. self-fulfilling prophecy.
Answer: C
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Your textbook discusses a typical theory about brain lateralization. According to this discussion, gender differences in cognitive performance can be traced to the observation that
a. males process most information using the left hemisphere, whereas females primarily use the right hemisphere. b. males' brains show more lateralization than females' brains, so that a larger portion of the right hemisphere can process spatial information. c. males' brains show more lateralization than females' brains, leading to a decreased ability in combining different cognitive skills. d. verbal tasks use the right hemisphere in males, but the left hemisphere in females.
According to the discussion of the feminist movement in North America,
a. most Canadians did not need to oppose the Vietnam War; as a result, the Canadian feminist movement developed much later than in the United States. b. the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement made many women realize that men had much more power than they did. c. although many North American groups are connected with feminism, they tend to address a relatively narrow set of social concerns. d. most feminists specify that people cannot call themselves "feminists" unless they endorse a specific list of principles.
Describe the four basic techniques used in Freudian psychoanalysis, and explain the purpose of each
What will be an ideal response?
Group cohesiveness is best defined as
a. shared expectations in a group about how people are supposed to behave. b. qualities that bind members together and promote liking between members. c. expectations about the roles and behaviors of men and women. d. the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks in the presence of others.