Suppose that henry meets a woman who opposes the death penalty. From this, Henry decides that women are more likely than our men to oppose the death penalty. Henry assumes that the individual case is typical of its category. Henry has fallen prey to:
A) The confirmation bias
B) functional fixedness
C) The representativeness heuristic
D) the framing effect
Ans: C) The representativeness heuristic
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a. ketamine b. GHB c. XTC d. methamphetamine
According to B. F. Skinner, we are mistaken when we look to inner causes for our actions because
A. inner mental states have no impact on behavior. B. we have not identified the cause of behavior. C. only a few of the most obvious inner states, such as anxiety, can be a cause for our behavior. D. subjective feelings are the result of our behavior, not the cause.
Admission to elite colleges requires high SAT scores and high school GPA. If gene therapy could be used to improve performance on exams but was expensive to obtain, what is a potential consequence that ethicists would find concerning?
A. Older people would receive little benefit from this therapy. B. Students would be allowed to determine if their genes would be edited. C. The genes of high school students would be known to other people. D. Only people who could afford the therapy would attend elite colleges.
In boys, what are secondary sex characteristics related to?
a. Increased activity level and independence. b. Testosterone released by the pituitary gland. c. Increased testosterone output by the testes. d. Estrogens released by the adrenal glands.