Subjects were instructed to imagine either J. Carter or G. Ford as the winner of the 1976 US election. When later asked to predict who would actually win, subjects tended to predict the candidate that they had been asked to imagine earlier. This demonstrates the effects of:
a. priming
b. an illusory correlation
c. ignoring baserate information
d. the actor/observer bias
e. schematic processing
Ans: a
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a. Habituation c. Operant conditioning b. Classical conditioning d. Implicit learning
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