What is the dying trajectory for someone who experiences the diagnosis of a terminal disease, then several periods of illness and remission before death?
a. Stigmatized
b. Nonfatal
c. Ambiguous
d. Chronic
c
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If a cross-sectional study shows a difference between people of different ages, the difference might be due to a cohort effect
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the discussion of the representativeness heuristic in Chapter 12, people often commit the small-sample fallacy in social situations. An example of this point is that
a. people may form a stereotype, based on only a few members of a particular ethnic group. b. people frequently try to confirm their current hypothesis. c. people judge others in terms of personal characteristics that are easy to remember. d. people judge the conjunction of two events to be more likely than just one of those events.
Bowlby's work focused on:
a. cognitive development b. socio-cultural development c. attachment theory d. social referencing theory
Based on what you have read, which of these is an accurate statement about how people organize concepts?
A. Humans rarely group concepts into similar categories unless society explicitly teaches this behavior. B. Concepts are isolated representations floating around in unstructured semantic memory spaces. C. People who are from different cultures and speak different languages tend to organize concepts into similar categories. D. Individual conceptual categories usually vary widely depending on an individual's emotional state.