What term do psychologists use to describe
our tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?
a) confirmation bias
b) convergent thinking
c) availability heuristic
d) representativeness heuristic
ANS: a
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a. 20 days. b. eight weeks. c. six months. d. nine months.
_____ are recollections that a person includes in an account of the events of his or her own life
a) Self-metacognitions b) Eyewitness memories c) Autobiographical memories d) Serial position memories
The primary difference between "a moody person" and a person with a mood disorder is that a person with a mood disorder will have:
A. difficulty sleeping and feel tired all the time. B. very clear "up" periods of mania and "down" periods of depression. C. trouble functioning in daily life as a result of mood changes. D. repeated episodes of moodiness over the course of several years.
You would expect that children would start to use multi-word utterances (primitive sentences) at around age ______.
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4