Asking a child, "Can you remember what the man with the beard did?" when the child never brought up a bearded man is an example of
A. a leading question.
B. a suggestive question.
C. repetitious questioning.
D. a speculative question.
B
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____ refers to a view of other people, usually a negative view, based on their membership in a specific group
a. Ethnocentrism b. Racism c. Discrimination d. Prejudice
John is a chronic alcohol abuser. He has been an alcoholic for well over 30 years. If he presents with confabulation, disorientation, and confusion, we may consider the following diagnosis:
a. Tourette's syndrome. b. Korsakoff's syndrome. c. neural degeneration syndrome. d. cognitive alcohol deficit.
We often tend to see psychological patterns in the pictures that people draw. For example, we might think that suspicious people would tend to draw exaggerated eyes. What error in judgment does this represent?
a. the confirmation bias b. illusory correlation c. law of small numbers d. the my-side bias
Incentives refer to:
a. internal states that have the capacity to motivate goal-directed behaviors b. learned patterns of responding that occur reflexively in the presence of specific stimuli c. external factors that have the capacity to motivate goal-directed behaviors d. unlearned patterns of responding that are controlled by specific triggering stimuli