A French automobile company once marketed a car with an unusual clutch mechanism in the United States. To disengage the gears prior to shifting, the driver had to depress the accelerator all the way to the floor
American drivers of this car never mastered this procedure and after numerous accidents and lawsuits the company stopped selling the car here. The difficulty with shifting this car was due to ______.
a. functional fixedness c. heuristics
b. bottom up processing d. overapplication of algorithms
A
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a. ?are relatively new fields in psychology b. ?focus on abstractions with little ability to be applied in real settings c. ?focus on the ability of organisms to adapt to their environment d. ?are older theories that have been replaced by newer theories in psychology
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
In Jung's theory, consciousness and unconsciousness are:
a. inversely related b. directly related c. interdependent d. completely independent
What describes religious behaviors because of social or practical rewards?
A. extrinsic religiosity B. religion as quest C. intrinsic religiosity D. fundamentalism