What term do psychologists use to describe the tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?
a) confirmation bias
b) convergent thinking
c) availability heuristic
d) representativeness heuristic
A
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To Wundt's two basic elements of consciousness, Titchener added extensity.?
a. True b. False
According to the discussion of metamemory, children who are between the ages of about 5 and 10 typically
a. believe that they need to make an effort if they genuinely want to remember something. b. underestimate how well they will perform on a memory test. c. were only slightly more confident about the items they had answered correctly, compared to their confidence about the items they had answered incorrectly. d. use appropriate memory strategies if they realize that they don't know the material.
Reasoning is a special type of problem solving that usually requires one to make
a. an inference. c. a deduction. b. a decision. d. an implication.
Mnemonic techniques
a. are often visual. c. can be very elaborate. b. improve memory. d. All of these