Physicians often say, "When you hear hoof beats behind you, think horses, not zebras." In terms of this chapter, this idea most closely resembles
a. base rate information.
b. social cognition.
c. chronic accessibility.
d. self-fulfilling prophecy.
Answer: A
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A. criteria B. assumptions C. requirements D. parametrics
According to Maslow, examples of meta-needs would include
a. perfection and completion. b. justice and truth. c. beauty and goodness. d. all of these.
System of rules for combining words and phrases to make meaningful sentences is called ___.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Amenti can easily tell that glasses of different shapes will still hold the same amount of water, but she still believes that a long, spread-out row of five quarters is more than a scrunched together group of five quarters. Jean Piaget would say that Amenti is demonstrating
A) formal operations. B) object permanence. C) horizontal decalage. D) transitive inference.