A. the farming effect
B. the availability heuristic
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. belief perseverance
Related Mcqs:
- The reporting of conceptual enquiry style of research can take a variety of formats. it usually involves persuasion based on a preferred basis (e.g. discovery learning), use of examples showing the effectiveness of the new idea, and often____________or other evidence:
A. Psychological
B. Technological
C. Logical
D. Strong - In the British Crime survey, who had high levels of worry about burglary and violent crime?
A. Professionals
B. Women
C. Men
D. Those over 75 years- of age - Research studies that examine people’s responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:
A. Logic
B. Detection of the problem
C. Conditional of the problem
D. Heuristics
E. Representation of the problem - Which is another reason people may strongly desire an elective amputation?
A. Both
B. The crave the challenges of overcoming the disability
C. They want to be able to avoid work and collect a disability pension
D. Neither - The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?
A. encoding failure
B. repression
C. implicit memory loss
D. interference - Andrea views her work as primarily an opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder in pursuit of increasingly better positions. Andrea apparently views her work as a:
A. flow
B. contract
C. career
D. calling - Full and clear communication regarding Kelsey’s manager is enhanced by the performance appraisals she periodically receives from fellow managers, subordinates, customers, and her supervisor. This best illustrates the value of:
A. flow
B. experiencing flow
C. 360-degree feedback
D. structured interviews - The Ponzo illusion illustrates that people judge the size of an object in terms of its perceived _______________?
A. shape
B. height
C. distance
D. convergence - As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?
A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity - In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:
A. curvilinear relationship
B. effect of extraneous variables
C. natural experiment
D. placebo effect
