____________________ leads people to assert "I knew it all along" and thanks to it, people can almost always come up with plausible sounding explanations for known personality traits
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Hindsight bias
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Regarding the skin senses, which of the following statements is FALSE? a. The skin is the body's largest sensory organ. b. All skin receptors respond to more than one type of stimulation. c. There are close to one-half million receptors for touch and pressure distributed throughout the body. d. The part of the cerebral cortex that processes information from the skin receptors is called
thesomatosensory cortex. e. There are specific receptors in the skin for warmth and cold.
The students who took the study skills course are a sample rather than a population
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
One characteristic that ganglion cells and bipolar cells have in common is that they both
a. are located behind the photoreceptor layer of the retina. b. change form as a result of the breakdown of rhodopsin. c. are photoreceptors. d. are transparent. e. send their axons to the optic disk.
Margo can't close the window in her office, and a strong wind has come up. She complains to John that her papers are blowing and she can't find a paperweight.John takes the empty heavy coffee mug from her bookshelf and puts it on top of her papers to anchor them. Margo has been suffering from ________
a. inadequate means-end analysis
b. functional fixedness
c. noncompensatory modeling
d. working backward