You go to buy a lottery ticket and decide to carefully select your own combination of numbers. This is a good example of a(n):
a. self-serving bias
b. illusion of control
c. fundamental attribution error
d. correspondent inference
e. positivity bias
Ans: b
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a. a nerve cell's electrical charge reaching its threshold. b. a nerve cell reaching a negative trigger point. c. a nerve cell briefly dropping below its resting level. d. the axon's readiness for another wave of activity.
In the normal distribution, the percentage of scores that fall within one standard deviation of the mean is approximately:
a. 34% b. 50% c. 68% d. 95%
Adolescent boys and girls view their early sexual activity in very similar ways
a. True b. False
Learned helplessness is the theory that depression is caused by a lack of connection between responses and their outcome, which was proposed by________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).