Elenita is from a relatively sheltered background. When she goes to college, she meets a Hispanic student. This student is the only Hispanic person she has ever known. The student is very independent and outspoken on their first meeting. After that meeting, Elenita decides that Hispanics in general must be independent and outspoken. Elenita's reaction illustrates the ____
a. base-rate fallacy
b. false consensus effect
c. illusory correlation
d. one-shot illusory correlation
D
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a) All behaviors that are socially deviant should be considered abnormal. b) Psychologists universally rely on societal norms to define abnormality. c) Our notions of what is socially deviant changes over time. d) Some argue that we must apply statistical approaches to define abnormality.
Infants' heads are usually much smaller than their bodies
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which theory of language acquisition combines several schools of thought to hypothesize that language development is produced through a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language?
a) universal grammar b) interactionist perspective c) learning theory approach d) language-acquisition device
Another way of saying that a high level of stimulus control is needed is to say that ______.
a. decelerators will be useful for stopping the behavior b. low generalization and high discrimination of the antecedent cue are necessary c. stimulus saturation is likely to occur d. behavioral momentum needs to be avoided