The adaptive value of heuristics is that they:
a. always produce rational, highly accurate decisions
b. allow reasonable, quick decisions from limited facts
c. keep decision-making objective and fact oriented
d. provide step-by-step instructions that reduce cognitive demands
B
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By changing the number of items in Piaget's conservation test, subsequent researchers found that __________.
A. young children make even more preoperational errors than Piaget thought B. older children were worse than younger children when it comes to preoperational errors C. young children make fewer preoperational errors than Piaget thought D. young children made no preoperational errors
Placing meat near a hungry dog will increase the dog’s saliva flow. This is an example of a(n) _____.
a. unconditioned stimulus b. unconditioned response c. conditioned stimulus d. conditioned response
Five-year-old Todd watched his father at his workbench, hammering together a birdhouse. Soon Todd was next to his father, hammer in hand, tapping the workbench. Todd's behavior is best described by which perspective?
a. social-cognitive c. sociocultural b. behavioral d. neoanalytic
In the survey project she is working on, Dr. Miyake finds a correlation of .60 between attachment security and the likelihood with which participants say they would engage in various prosocial behaviors at work. This could mean any of the following EXCEPT this:
a. Attachment security leads people to behave prosocially at work. b. A trait such as extraversion is related to both prosocial behavior and attachment security. c. Attachment security and prosocial behavior are unrelated. d. Prosocial behavior causes attachment security.