When a person remembers or notices only things that back up his or her expectations and forgets the rest, he or she is experiencing
a. the Barnum Effect.
b. the confirmation bias.
c. astrologer's dilemma.
d. uncritical acceptance.
B
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A friend claims that his 10-month-old daughter appears to be counting because she prefers a bowl with many cookies to a bowl with one cookie. First, fill your friend in on research on the math abilities of young infants, focusing on whether or not infants can count. Then describe any two principles that your friend can expect his daughter to use when she counts during her preschool years
What will be an ideal response?
When Lang demonstrated that belief that one has consumed alcohol influenced aggression, he demonstrated that controlling for __________ does influence the outcome of research
a. alcohol c. aggression b. experimenter bias d. expectations
Substance abuse is characterized by a pattern of repeated drug use that can lead to each of the following EXCEPT ______
a. a diminished ability to fulfill responsibilities at home, work, or school b. the development of tolerance to a recreational drug c. legal difficulties related to drug use d. repeated use of the drug in dangerous situations
The word “walk” becomes past tense if you add “ed” to say “walked.” In this word, “ed” is the smallest meaningful unit of language, and is thus termed a
a. productive feature b. grammatical abnormality c. phoneme d. morpheme