If you make a decision about what most households in the country are like by thinking about what your college friends are like, you are succumbing to the __________ heuristic
a. representativeness
b. retrieval
c. availability
d. belief bias
Answer: c
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a. prejudice. b. discrimination. c. social categorization. d. a stereotype.
Sleep apnea refers to
a. vivid recurrent nightmares. b. a breathing problem during sleep. c. excessive daytime sleepiness. d. sudden sleep attacks.
Why did it take so long for the field of psychology to be seriously interested in and study positive emotions?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements is true regarding gender differences in cognitive performance?
A. There is very little overlap between males and females in cognitive performance. B. Females are better than males on tasks requiring mental rotation of 3-D objects but less so on other spatial tasks. C. Gender differences in cognitive performance have become more extreme in recent years. D. The differences that do exist are task specific; that is, females do not excel on all verbal tasks.