On which of the following kinds of "everyday" memory tasks is an older adult likely to do as well as younger adults?
a. recalling whether she turned off the stove before she left the house
b. recalling whether she voted in the last election
c. recalling the names of all the major streets of the town in which she lives
d. remembering to take medication a specified number of times each day
B
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In the textbook case of Arthur, he said that he had a "secret plan to save all the starving children in the world." After Arthur showed other bizarre behavior and said he was going to climb the fence of a government building, his parents tried to have him admitted to a psychiatric hospital. They were not able to do that because
A. he was not considered a danger to himself or others. B. he was given medication, instead, to calm him down. C. the hospital staff didn't believe his parents. D. his behavior was due to a substance abuse problem.
Delusions of persecution are the primarysymptom of
A) catatonic schizophrenia B) somatoform disorders C) paranoid schizophrenia D) dissociative disorders
Anita is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If we judge the probability of Anita’s being a model as quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using the heuristic of ______.
a. representativeness b. availability c. framing d. the law of small numbers
Joan does not socialize very much because she has to take care of her ailing mother. Joan's co-workers think she does not socialize very much because she is an unfriendly person. The co-workers’ perceptions of Joan can best be explained by the
a. false consensus effect b. bias blind spot c. correspondence bias d. cognitive dissonance bias