Shannon feels miserable in her marriage but refuses to consider getting a divorce; she feels that a divorce would completely waste all of the hard work she has put into making the marriage work for 20 years. Shannon's line of reasoning BEST illustrates the:

A) sunk-cost fallacy.
B) conjunction fallacy.
C) problem of codependent probabilities.
D) family resemblance bias.


A) sunk-cost fallacy.

Psychology

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A. as the value of one variable increases, one can predict that the value of the other will decrease. B. little or no relationship exists between the two variables of interest. C. as the value of one variable increases, one can predict that the value of the other will also increase. D. of the two variables being studied, one causes the other.

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Jeffry is high in dark triad traits. What might his experience with mate-poaching be?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The DSM distinguishes between ______ general types of bipolar disorder

a. two c. four b. three d. five

Psychology

Motor neurons of the sympathetic division of the ANS project from the __________ to the __________.

A. gray matter of the sacral spinal cord; sympathetic ganglia B. gray matter of the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord; sympathetic ganglia C. gray matter of the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord; final target organ D. cervical regions of the spinal cord; final target organs

Psychology