Wally and Sharon are out on a date. When Sharon asks Wally where they should go for dinner, Wally says "My coworkers keep telling me about that new Japanese place downtown, so it must be a great place to eat." Wally's response illustrates the use of a(n)
a. availability heuristic.
b. confirmation bias.
c. conjunction rule.
d. permission schema.
a
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Piaget saw cognitive development as an ongoing process, rather than one of distinct stages
a. True b. False
People who score high on a test of conscientiousness turn out to be better workers than those who score low on the test. This test can be said to have high ________
a. predictive reliability b. a meta-analysis c. intrinsic coherency d. predictive validity
The standard deviation is a commonly used measure of variability that indicates the average difference between scores in a distribution
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The Pearson product-moment correlation and the Spearman correlation both involve
a. higher order correlations. b. multiple regression. c. bivariate correlations. d. nonlinear correlations.