How many American cancer deaths does the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services attribute to smoking?
A) One third?
B) ?One half
C) ?A quarter
D) ?One fifth
A
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If you stumble upon a tarantula in the woods, your brain will transmit information about that stimulus to the _____ through two routes, the "fast pathway" and the "slow pathway."
A) frontal lobe B) hippocampus C) amygdala D) pituitary gland
The notion that people pass through stages in childhood that determine their adult personalities has ___________ definitive research support
a. much c. lasting b. little d. continued
A professor asks students to guess what percent of people in homeless shelters are parents and children. Before you can consider your answer, another student shouts out “about 10%.” Your answer may be either higher or lower than it would be otherwise because of:
a. the belief-bias effect.
b. the confirmation bias.
c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
d. the hindsight bias.
Zachary, a hunter from the James Bay area, was given the Kohs Blocks test and completed the test so fast that his IQ went "off the scale" (exceeded 180 ) on all seven examples. What does this tell us about IQ tests?
a) The scale was invalid b) IQ scales require a greater range to capture all levels of functioning c) IQ tests can be biased in favour of the Inuit due to their specialized skills d) Because of their tendency to get lower IQ scores, Inuit's performance scores are often adjusted upward