If asked, "Which is more probable? A. Janice wears glasses and is a librarian. B. Janice is a librarian.". Most people would answer A, although A is less likely to be true than B. According to Tversky and Kahneman, such faulty conclusions are based on
a. the framing effect.
b. convergent thinking.
c. divergent thinking.
d. the representativeness heuristic.
D
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a. inheritance rights b. hospital visitation rights c. family support d. child custody rights
All of the following are criteria that have been used for identifying psychologically abnormal behavior EXCEPT that
a. behavior must be statistically outside of the normal range. b. behavior must be present prior to young adulthood. c. behavior must interfere with personal and social adaptation. d. behavior must cause personal distress.
In an early experiment, stimulating the reticular formation in a sleeping cat caused the cat to:
A) immediately wake up into an alert state. B) stop breathing and literally die in its sleep. C) experience vivid dreams. D) lapse into an irreversible coma.
Regarding infants' tastes, BITTER is to SWEET as ____ is to ____
a. STEADY :: INTERMITTENT b. INNATE :: LEARNED c. APPROACH :: AVOID d. DISGUST :: SMILE