What sorts of cognitive biases do people engage in that help them to feel better about themselves (i.e., what cognitive biases work to satisfy the motivation for self-enhancement)?
What will be an ideal response?
a . Confirmation bias: Helps people to feel that their ideas and beliefs are the correct ones.
b. False consensus effect: People tend to show this effect for opinions and attitudes, as well as for their weaknesses and faults; helps them to feel that their views are the correct ones and that their weaknesses and faults are relatively forgivable.
c. False uniqueness effect: People tend to show this effect for their strengths; helps them to feel that their strengths are even more impressive than they really are.
d. Illusion of control: Helps people to feel that they have more power over things than they really do.
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a. The hippocampus lies inside the temporal lobes. b. The hippocampus is associated with forming lasting memories. c. The hippocampus tells us when to fear dangerous stimuli. d. The hippocampus helps us navigate through space.
The data-gathering method that refers to the measurement of behavior in actual everyday situations is:
a. M data b. Q data c. L data d. T data
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A) mistrust; shame B) basic trust; doubt C) basic trust; autonomy D) autonomy; mistrust
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a. variation due to the individual differences among subjects b. variation due to the treatments-by-subjects interaction c. variation due to the independent variable and treatments-by-subjects interaction d. total variation of the scores