You expect a class will be hard if the instructor says 35% of the class will get Ds or Fs, but not if the instructor says 65% will get a C or higher. Your expectations illustrate the importance of:
a. the availability heuristic
b. belief persistence
c. mental set
d. framing
D
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. self-consciousness b. metacognition c. reversed cognition d. minimal consciousness
An approach to measuring the importance of attitude components that requires consumers to allocate 100 points among the components such that the distribution of the points reflects the relative importance of the component is _____.
A) perceptual mapping B) the Likert scale C) the semantic differential scale D) the rank-order scale E) none of the above
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a. a hermaphrodite b. sexually undifferentiated c. polymorphously perverse d. a pseudohermaphrodite