Many people mistakenly believe their chances of dying in an airplane crash are greater than their chances of dying in an automobile crash. This belief reflects the operation of
a. confirmation bias.
b. the belief in the law of small numbers.
c. the availability heuristic.
d. the conjunction fallacy.
C
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Like many of the first generation of psychologists, Watson's first graduate school area of study was ____.?
a. ?Physiology b. ?Positivism c. ?Philosophy d. ?Psychophysics e. ?Physics
Stanley Milgram's obedience studies in which participants thought they were delivering intense electric shocks to another person involve a task that few people encounter in life. As such, the study shows low
a. experimental realism b. causal ambiguity. c. mundane realism. d. experimenter effects.
In an experiment on the effects of a CS for food on food consumption, Weingarten (1983) reported that
a. rats only approached the CS if they were hungry. b. rats always approached the CS, but only ate if they were hungry. c. rats approached the CS and ate even if they were not hungry. d. rats avoided consuming food for at least 20 minutes after each CS presentation.
According to Piaget, when a person is capable of testing hypotheses to solve a problem, they have reached the end of cognitive development. This occurs in which of Piaget's stages?
a. sensorimotor b. formal operational c. concrete operational d. preoperational