Jules and Jim are reading a book review about a book that both of them have read. Jules hated the book, and seems to feel that the reviewer also hated it. Meanwhile, Jim thought the book was witty and provocative, and he seems to think that the reviewer shares HIS views. It seems as though both Jules and Jim are "seeing" different things when reading the book review. That is, both of them seem to
be engaging in the ____.
a. confirmation bias
b. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. false consensus effect
d. illusory correlation
A
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Joan suffers from __________ amnesia and Jane from __________ amnesia. A) anterograde; retrograde B) retrograde; anterograde C) proactive; retroactive D) retroactive; proactive
According to the 2005 Graduate Study in Psychology, forty-eight percent of graduates with psychology degrees are in the ____________ subfield of psychology
a. social b. personality c. clinical d. counseling
You participate in a research study, and the researchers ask you to study and remember a list of 10 bizarre sentences. Are you likely to do better on this task than you would if you had to recall a list of 10 ordinary sentences? Why or why not?
A. Maybe. It depends on each person's level of creativity B. Yes. Bizarre ideas are almost always easy to remember because they are so unexpected. C. No. If all the ideas are bizarre, then none of them stand out D. No. People tend to perform about the same on these tests regardless of the bizarreness of the imagery
Prosody is linked most clearly to the function of the ___
a. right hemisphere b. left Wernicke's area c. right occipital lobe d. left Broca's area