In several laboratory experiments, Lerner found that after seeing someone picked at random and supposedly subjected to electric shocks, most subjects who observed the event blamed the victim. This conforms with the:
a. discounting principles
b. belief in a just world
c. tendency to make entity attributions
d. negativity bias
e. none of the above
Ans: b
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a. Spearman's rho. b. the point biserial correlation. c. the phi coefficient. d. multivariate analysis.
Which of the following would have no effect on the width of a confidence interval?
a. Increase the sample mean c. Increase the percentage of confidence b. Increase the size of the sample d. Increase the sample variance
There is a critical period just after birth when new organisms showed a particular readiness to learn, or ___________, from other members of their species who happened to be present
a. brand c. imprint b. impress d. stamp
The notion of “fuzzy categories” refers to_________.
a. categories that overlap with each other, e.g., the whale (a mammal) and fish both swim b. categories that lack defining features c. categories that lack defining and necessary features d. all of the above