People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments
For example, they assume anyone over 6'6" must have played a lot of basketball, even thought the majority of individuals have not played much basketball. This is a prime example of:
a) regression to the mean.
b) the availability heuristic.
c) the representativeness heuristic.
d) anchoring and adjustment.
Answer: c
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a. ?nerve b. ?cochlear c. ?conduction d. ?fused
In _____, a person cannot move during the transition from consciousness to sleep, and hallucinations occur
A) sleep apnea B) sleep paralysis C) insomnia D) somnambulism
Correlational research has shown that :
a. watching a stressful soccer game increases the risk of an acute cardiovascular event. b. men, but not women, who experience job stress are at more risk for cardiovascular disease.. c. catastrophic events, such as earthquakes have not been related to increases in heart attacks because they are natural disasters rather than man-made disasters. d. Job status does not seem to play a role in the link between job stress and the risk of cardiovascular disease.
A psychologist is questioning Hunter about his childhood memories. Hunter is telling the psychologist the story of his favourite Christmas present, a trip to Disneyland. His memories of the present and the trip itself are very clear; however, Hunter believes that the present came from his Uncle Charley, when in fact it was from his Aunt Beth. This type of error in memory is known as:
A) misattribution. B) false recognition. C) hindsight bias. D) childhood amnesia.