Nalini thinks that divorce is very common now. Her opinion is based on her recalling that quite a number of the couples she has known well over the years have recently split up. This is an example of:
a. the false consensus effect
b. an illusory correlation
c. the representativeness heuristic
d. the availability heuristic
e. the simulation heuristic
Ans: d
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Children with hearing impairments often experience significant handicaps in a variety of areas of
a. cognitive development. c. fine motor development. b. physical development. d. neurological development.
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A) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the left hemisphere. B) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the right hemisphere. C) undamaged areas—in either the left or the right hemisphere—took over vocabulary and grammatical skills by age 5. D) language skills were more likely to be permanently damaged than spatial skills.