Cliff is a manager of a restaurant. He refuses to hire elderly people to help out in the restaurant because he believes they are too senile to do the work properly
He is so convinced of this that he refuses to even look at the resumes of elderly individuals who come in to apply for work. Cliff's discriminatory behavior is an example of ______.
a. compensatory decision modeling c. the availability heuristic
b. hill-climbing d. the representativeness heuristic
D
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The desire to reduce cognitive ambiguity, which heightens the importance of first impressions, is called
a. the need for closure. b. belief perseverance. c. confirmation bias. d. counterfactual thinking.
In counterconditioning, an organism learns to respond to a stimulus in a way that is completely compatible with a response that was conditioned earlier
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A speaker of Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of the Cape York Australian aboriginals, would say "Melbourne is south of Cape York" as well as saying "The dessert spoon is west of the coffee cup.". Thus, for long and short distances speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre use __________ directional references
a. absolute b. relative c. conjunctive d. disjunctive
Jaque is a psychoanalytic therapist. Which of the following personality tests would he find most useful?
a) California Personality Inventory b) any rating scale c) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator d) any projective test