Sharon has met three musicians who have had full beards and three musicians who were clean-shaven. Still, she believes that MOST musicians have beards. Sharon's belief reflects
a. an egocentric slant.
b. an illusory correlation.
c. a confirmation bias.
d. the fundamental attribution error.
B
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a. True b. False
Mark cannot leave his apartment. Whenever he begins to go out, he is seized by
unexplained but powerful anxiety and terror, his heart pounds, and he fears that he will lose his sanity, and maybe even die. He is suffering from (a) acute stress disorder (b) panic disorder with agoraphobia (c) chronic stress disorder (d) posttraumatic distress disorder (e) obsessive-compulsive disorder
Nancy and Cliff had four children who did not have cystic fibrosis, but their fifth child was born with the disease. Cystic fibrosis is carried on a recessive gene. Given what you've learned in this chapter, how could this happen?
A. It wasn't until the fifth child that both parents passed on the allele for this illness. B. Recessive genes normally skip a generation, but after the parents had five children, the gene was expressed. C. Their fifth child must have been a boy, which makes it more probable that he would have the illness. D. Their fifth child must have been a girl, which makes it more probable that she would have the illness.
Which of the following children can likely dress and undress without supervision?
A) Shang, who is 2 years old B) Penelope, who is 3 years old C) Jason, who is 3½ years old D) Lillian, who is 4 years old