Optimistic Bias
What will be an ideal response?
the tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to other people than to one's self
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Which of the following statements best captures the current view on the role of families in the development of eating disorders?
a. Families, particularly mothers, have a strong impact on whether their daughters will develop an eating disorder. b. Dysfunctional families clearly create eating disorders in their sons and daughters. c. It is unlikely that one single factor, including families, causes eating disorders. d. It is most likely that cultural factors, not family factors, set the stage for the development of eating disorders.
Relative insensitivity to delayed rewards helps explain why it is:
A) common for people to choose the better of two immediate options. B) common for most people to save their discretionary income, rather than spend it. C) difficult for public officials to mobilize their efforts to thwart an imminent terrorist attack. D) difficult for people to change their behaviour to address global warming.
Which country DIFFERS most from the other three in its status on the collectivism/ individualism dimension?
a. Australia b. India c. Japan d. China
Which type of memory did the patient known as H. M. lose as a result of a brain operation to reduce seizures?
a. declarative c. elaborative b. procedural d. implicit