Suppose that you hear about a friend who graduated from your college in performing arts. In addition, suppose that you judge that she is more likely to be selling insurance and active in community theater than she is to be selling insurance
You have committed
a. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
b. the crystal-ball technique.
c. the belief-bias effect.
d. the conjunction fallacy.
Ans: d
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a. the effect of immediacy does not necessitate physical proximity. b. it is more relevant to understanding conformity than to understanding obedience. c. source strength is less important than the number of sources. d. the strength of a source depends more on prestige than intelligence.
Which of these statements regarding cremation practices in the United States is Answer: False?
a. Cremation is always less expensive than earth burial because one does not have the expense of a cemetery lot and the funeral service. b. Approximately one-half of funerals in the United States involve cremation. c. When a body is cremated, the remains look very much like ashes that can be found in a fireplace. d. All of the above.
Darwin was influenced by the book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, by
a. Aldous Huxley. b. Robert FitzRoy. c. Thomas Huxley. d. Thomas Malthus.
In her work with porpoises, Karen Pryor gradually realized that what she had to do to get novel behavior from the animals was to _______
a. reinforce novel behavior b. punish repetitive behavior c. shape the novel behavior she wanted d. provide noncontingent reinforcement