How could the illusory-correlation effect produce a stereotype?
a. People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype.
b. People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people.
c. People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics, and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics.
d. People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor, and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.
Ans: c
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Arlotta has been participating in a study investigating the effects of REM sleep
deprivation. After several nights of being awakened just as she entered each period of REM sleep, she is allowed to sleep through the entire night. Electrophysiological measurements revealed that on this night Arlotta a. slept about two hours longer than she normally does. b. slept about two hours longer than she did when she was deprived of REM sleep. c. spent the typical amount of time in REM sleep. d. spent more time than normal in REM sleep. e. spent less time than normal in REM sleep.
According to the chapter You're Driving Me Crazy, if a measure is valid it is
(a) accurate (b) intensive (c) objective (d)repeatable
When the values of one attribute are randomly associated with the values of another
attribute, the correlation between the two attributes is (a) about zero (b) generally positive (c) generally negative (d) not enough information is given to answer the question