In general, the first information we receive about a person has greater influence than later information. This is called:
a. first impressions.
b. recency effect.
c. hedonic decision.
d. the primacy effect.
d
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Selective abstraction is __________.
A. a tendency to think in extremes B. a tendency to jump to conclusions based on little or no evidence C. part of Beck's cognitive triad D. a tendency to focus on one negative detail of a situation while ignoring other aspects
The degree to which conclusions reached about relationships in an experiment are reasonable is referred to as construct validity
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Professor Straker tells her class that, for humans, intelligence scores correlate with the surface area of the ______.
A. frontal and parietal cortex B. temporal cortex C. cerebellum D. thalamus and hypothalamus
The wide influence of the behavioral approach began to fade by the late ________, as its lack of attention to mental processes began to draw criticism.
A. 1920s B. 1940s C. 1060s D. 1980s