Choose a cultural group and discuss beliefs about cancer among people in that group.
What will be an ideal response?
Responses will vary.
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An expert and a beginner examine chess pieces arranged on a chessboard as they might appear during a well-played game. Which one (if either) can remember the arrangement better, and why? a. The expert remembers better because of greater capacity of short-term memory. b. The expert remembers better because of better episodic memory
c. The expert remembers better by recognizing a familiar pattern. d. Both will remember about equally well because it is a visual memory.
An "environmental factor" explanation for the racial differences in IQ scores would focus on:
A. hormonal differences B. genetic differences C. poverty D. biological factors
In Sternberg's scheme, Romantic love:
A) includes commitment to remain together without intimacy or passion. B) means long-term committed friendship such as a marriage or a whirlwind courtship in which the passion has faded. C) refers to an intense, positive emotion that involves sexual attraction, feelings of caring, and the belief that one is in love. D) is the ideal form of love which combines passion, intimacy, and commitment.
In their critique of the use of verbal reports as a source of data about the cognitive processes involved in a variety of different tasks, Nisbett and Wilson (1977) argued that
a. People are often unable to given accurate reports of the factors which have influenced their behaviors. b. Retrospective accounts by the participants of the ways in which they performed a task may provide valuable insights into the processes involved in doing the task. c. Verbal reports are an accurate source of information about the factors involved in our behaviors, decisions, and emotions. d. People have direct, introspective access to their cognitive processes.