How does the availability of cognitive resources impact accuracy motivation?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Accuracy motivation is undermined to the extent that our cognitive resources are unavailable for engaging in more complex thinking or for gathering a lot of information.

Psychology

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Those who believe that intelligence is primarily due to genetics would have the most difficulty explaining why ____

a. ?identical twins have more similar IQ scores than fraternal twins b. whites have higher average IQs than most non-whites? c. individuals in the same family tend to have similar IQs? d. black children placed in white families have above average IQs?

Psychology

Signal detection theory assumes that:

a. a person's ability to detect a stimulus depends only on the stimulus. b. people will always be biased toward thinking the stimulus was not there, even if it was. c. a person's response depends on the stimulus and on a decision about it. d. people will always be biased toward thinking the stimulus was there, even if it wasn't.

Psychology

If we wanted to predict job performance using the results of a personality test and an intelligence test, which of the following statistical techniques would be best to use?

A. coefficient of determination B. linear regression C. multiple regression D. correlation

Psychology