Alice goes to see a rerun of Jaws (a movie about a vicious shark) a few days before she takes off to Florida on spring break
On break, she finds that she is now too nervous to spend much time actually in the water, since she is convinced that anything she sees in the water is a shark. Her heightened sensitivity is due to
a. self-fulfilling prophecy.
b. priming.
c. anchoring and adjustment.
d. representativeness.
Answer: B
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a. less than 10 percent b. about 20 percent c. about 33 percent d. about 50 percent e. more than 75 percent
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a. behavioral reinforcement theory of love b. cognitive theory of love c. evolutionary theory of love d. three styles of attachment
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a. Circadian b. Suprachiasmatic c. Infradian d. Ultradian