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| not be able to tell them apart |
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| Which of the following illustrates belief perseverance? |
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| Your belief remains intact even in the face of evidence to the contrary. |
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| Complete the following analogy: Rose is to flower as: |
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| Your stand on an issue as the use of nuclear power ofr electricity involves personal judgement. In such a case, one memorable occurrence can weigh more heavily than a bookful of data, thus illustrating: |
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| the availablity heuristic |
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| A dessert recipe that gives you the ingredients, their amounts, and the steps to follow is an example of a(n): |
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| Dr. Mendoza is studying the mental strategies people use when solving problems. Dr. Mendoza is clearly: |
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| Boris the chess master selects his next move by considering moves that would threaten his opponets queen. His opponet a chess-playing computer, selects its next move by condering all possible moves. Boris is using a(n)____ and the computer is using a(n)_____. |
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| During a television political debate, the Republican and Democratic candidates each argued that the results of a recent public opinion poll supported their partys platform regarding sexual harassment. It is clear that both were victims of: |
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| The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in____. This type of utterance demonstrates that children are activily experimenting with the rules of ____. |
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| telegraphic speech;syntax |
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| Experts in a field perfer heuristics to algorithms beacuse heuristics: |
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| Rudy is 6 feet 6 inches tall weighs about 210 and is very muscular. It you think Rudy is more likely to be a basketball player than a computer programmer you are a victim of: |
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| the representativeness heuristic |
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| Failing to see that an article of clothing can be inflated as a life preserver is an example of: |
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Airline reservations typically decline after a highly publicized crash because people over estimate the incidence of such disasters. In such instances, their decisions are being influenced by: |
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| the availability heuristic |
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| overestimate the accuracy of their knowledge and judgements |
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| In relation to ground beef, consumers respond more positivly to an ad describing it as 75 percent lean than to one referring to its 25 percent fat content. This is an example of |
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| Vanessa is a very creative sculptress. We would expect that vanessa also: |
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| has a venturesome personality and is intrinsically motivated. |
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| To say that the heritablity of a trait is approximately 50 percent means: |
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| That of the variation in the trait within a group of people 50 percent can be attributed to heredity. |
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| 22 year old Dan has an intelligence score of 63 and the academic skills of a 4th grader, and is unable to live independently. Dan probably: |
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| A school psychologist found that 85% of those who scored about 115 on an aptitude test were A students and 75% of those who scored below 85 on the test were D students. The psychologist concluded that the test had high: |
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| predictive validity because scores on its correlated highly with the criterion behavior. |
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| Benito was born in 1937. In 1947 he scored 130 on an intelligence test. What was Benitos mental age when he took the test? |
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Melvin has been diagnosed as having savant syndrome, which means that he: |
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| is limited in menal ability but has one exceptional ability. |
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| The contribution of enviromental factors to racial gaps in intelligence scores is indicated by: |
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| Hiroko's math achievement score is considerably higher than that of most american students her age. Which of the following is true regarding this difference between asian and north american students? |
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| It is a recent phenomenon AND It may be due to the fact that asians students have longer school year. |
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| Jack takes the same test of mechanical reasoning on several different days and gets virtually identical scores. This suggests that the test has: |
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| You would not use a test of hearing acuity as an intelligence test because it would lack: |
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| If you compare the same trait in people of samiliar heredity who live in very different environments, heritablity for that trait will be_____; heritability for the trait is most likely to be _____ among people of very different heredities who live in similar environments. |
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| If you wanted to develop a test of musical aptitude in North American children, which would be the appropriate standardization group? |
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| If asked to guess the intelligence score of a stranger, your best guess would be: |
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| law students must pass a special licensing exam, which is an ___ test. SAT is an ____ test. |
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