The "framing effect" is the tendency to do what?
a. To overestimate the accuracy of your answers to difficult questions
b. To answer a question differently when it is phrased differently
c. To overlook base-rate information
d. To think of an object only in terms of the most common way of using it
b
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Dr. Gibbons believes that children develop gradually, adding new abilities and skills regularly. Dr. Gibbons believes in the philosophy of __________.
A. continuous change B. staged change C. gross change D. graduated stages
The site of ongoing cognitive processing is called ____
a. working memory b. active calibration c. the executive control system d. the visuospatial sketchpad
Compared with younger adults, older adults tend to do as well, or nearly as well, in tasks that assess ____ memory.
A. implicit B. explicit C. prospective D. associative