A president is managing a war that is not going well. Nevertheless, he refuses to withdraw troops, arguing that doing so would waste the billions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost fighting the war. The president's line of reasoning illustrates:
A) base-rate ignorance.
B) the sunk-cost fallacy.
C) the conjunction fallacy.
D) the principle of diminishing returns.
B) the sunk-cost fallacy.
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Dr. Abdul wants his research findings to be representative of the students at State U. He makes sure that every student has an equal chance of being a participant, thereby ensuring that he has engaged in____ sampling.?
a. ?biased b. ?operational c. ?random d. ?representative
Isabel tells Dr. Paz that the spirits she sees of her dead grandparents are causing her a great deal of anxiety, although they have motivated her to pursue a medical degree Isabel lives in Brazil. If Dr. Paz diagnoses her as having a psychological disorder, he will likely attribute it to which criterion?
a. deviance b. distress c. dangerousness d. dysfunction
Client-centered therapy is to __________ as Gestalt therapy is to __________
a. directive; nondirective c. objective; subjective b. nondirective; directive d. present; past
Children with learning disorders are more likely than other children to have:
a. asthma. c. ADHD. b. diabetes. d. depression.