Brenda is watching a political debate. When her preferred candidate gets up to speak, she nods her head when he makes points with which he agrees. When he is saying things that she does not support, however, she simply turns away and talks to her roommate. Brenda's tendency to seek out information that is consistent with her beliefs is called the:
A. confirmation bias
B. halo effect
C. brainstorm heuristic
D. means-end algorithm
Answer: A
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To avoid confusion in terminology, Allport relabeled individual traits as:
a. instincts. c. learned responses. b. constructs. d. personal dispositions.
Behaviorism was officially established in ____.?
a. ?1904, at the St. Louis Exposition b. ?1907, with Bekhterev's Objective Psychology c. ?1908, with Watson's lectures at Yale d. ?1911, with McDougall's Psychology: The Study of Behavior e. ?1913, with Watson's "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It"
The person with a strong social interest is very likely to be:
a. empathic b. competitive c. aggressive d. perfectionistic
Lenny can't reach the bathroom shelf where his father keeps the electric toothbrush, but he continues trying, day after day. After seeing his brother use a stool to open the kitchen cupboards, Lenny pushes the stool into the bathroom and uses it to finally get the toothbrush. How would Lenny's behavior be classified by learning theorists?
A. Lenny's new behavior is the result of maturation, not learning. B. Lenny has learned how to reach the bathroom shelf through associative learning. C. Lenny has learned an association between his own physical growth and reaching high places. D. Lenny was classically conditioned to use stools to extend his reach.