Psychic advisers promoted in TV commercials tend to make use of the human tendency to consider personal descriptions accurate if they are stated in general terms, which is called the
a. anthropomorphic error.
b. halo effect.
c. courtesy bias.
d. Barnum effect.
D
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McDougall's arguments against Watson included that ____.?
a. ?humans had free will b. ?data pertaining to consciousness were valuable c. ?an appeal to God as the director of human behavior d. ?free will made prediction and control unlikely e. ?humans had free will and data pertaining to consciousness were valuable
The thoughts and feelings of a research participant are not made public without consent. This illustrates:
a. external manifestation of debriefing. b. internal manifestation of voluntary participation. c. internal manifestation of the right to privacy. d. external manifestation of the right to privacy.
In order to be considered complex, a system must exhibit four qualities. List these qualities (use the one-word descriptors presented in the text)
________ is the conscious, deliberate remembering of events or experiences
a. Working memory b. Cognition c. Explicit memory d. Implicit memory