In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated:

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1. On Monday, the meteorologist forecast a 20 percent chance of rain, so Sharmila took her umbrella to work. On Friday, he reported an 80 percent chance than it would not rain, so Sharmila left her umbrella at home. Sharmila’s behavior illustrates the impact of:

   A. the representative heuristic
   B. the belief perseverance phenomenon
   C. overconfidence
   D. the framing effect

2. Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which participants made judgements about the length of lines. He was studying_________?

   A. Compliance
   B. Obedience
   C. Rule making
   D. Conformity

3. When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?

   A. Hindsight bias
   B. Intuition
   C. Availability heuristic
   D. Conditional reasoning

4. In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:

   A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
   B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
   C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
   D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment

5. The perception that Bugs Bunny is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates:

   A. Stroboscopic movement
   B. Visual capture
   C. The Ponzo illusion
   D. Perceptual adaptation

6. The experimental procedure in which both the experimenter and subject are unaware of who is in the experimental and who is in the control group is referred to as the:

   A. single-blind procedure
   B. the type of experiment is not possible
   C. stereotaxic procedure
   D. double-blind procedure

7. In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?

   A. factorial design
   B. within subjects design
   C. between subjects design
   D. quasi-experimental design

8. If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?

   A. invalid
   B. biased
   C. error
   D. unreliable

9. An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:

   A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
   B. rote memory scores
   C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
   D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue

10. After hearing rumors about the outbreak of an infectious disease, Alyosha began to perceive his normal aches and pains as disease related symptoms. His reaction best illustrated the impact of:

    A. The cocktail party effect
    B. Perceptual set
    C. Relative clarity
    D. The Ponzo illusion