A coworker wins the lottery twice in one year! Everyone at work is talking about it nonstop, and many are planning to buy a ticket for the next drawing. During lunch, you buy a lottery ticket. Which of the following most likely influenced your decision?
A. Published lottery statistics
B. The affective heuristic
C. The availability heuristic
D. An algorithm
Answer: C
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Conservatives tend to rely on conservative media outlets while liberals tend to rely on media outlets. What is this phenomenon called?
a. echo justification b. filter bubbles c. dissonance avoidance d. selective exposure
Albert Bandura found through his research that ____
a. ?rats who had previously wandered through a maze learned it faster once they began being rewarded for making it to the end b. ?when left on their own, cats would eventually find their way out of a box through a process of trial and error c. ?children will readily imitate the behavior of aggressive adults as long as the adults were not punished d. ?chimpanzees did not need to use trial-and-error to determine how to use a stick to reach a banana, indicating that learning can occur without behaving
The simplest explanation for sleep is that it serves to
a. repair. b. replace. c. recalibrate. d. recapture. e. replenish.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Classical conditioning is learning a relationship that exists between a stimulus and an outcome.