What problem-solving strategies don't guarantee solutions but make efficient use of time?
A. heuristics
B. algorithms
C. mnemonic devices
D. cognitive shortcuts
Answer: A
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a. True b. False
Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about and perceived rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would:
a. support the prototype theory of categorization b. support the linguistic relativity hypothesis c. provide evidence that the exemplar theory of categorization is incorrect d. provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect
In Watson and Rayner's "Little Albert" study, each time the rat was presented to the boy, it was accompanied by a loud noise. In this experiment, Albert's reaction of fear upon hearing the loud noise was the ________
a. unconditioned response b. conditioned response c. latent response d. counterconditioned response
Which of these relationships could be assessed most directly by a coefficient of
correlation? (a) between a husband and wife (b) how similar a brother is to his sister (c) between the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle (d) between aptitude test scores and performance on a job in a group of employees (e) between the Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution