A. People report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
B. People tend to overestimate car accidents
C. People are more likely to attribute a case of heartbum to spicy food than bland food
D. People tend to underestimate death from diabetes
Related Mcqs:
- The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:
A. underestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
B. judge the likelihood of an event in terms of how readily instances of its occurrence are remembered
C. cling to our initial conceptions, even though they have been discredited
D. judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype - 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 - The use of heuristic rather than algorithms is most likely to:
A. speed up language development in some children
B. minimize the overconfidence phenomenon
C. involve greater reliance on language skills
D. save time in arriving at solutions to problems - The representative heuristic can lead to both:
A. the arrangement problem and the framing effect
B. the framing effect and the gambler’s fallacy
C. the conjunction fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy
D. the conjunction fallacy and the overconfidence effect - People whom make impulsive, regrettable decisions, such as spending large amounts of money at once, suffer from which of these?
A. Dysthymia
B. Major depression
C. Bipolar disorder
D. Psychotic depression - Deciding which method to choose is very complex issue and depends on many factors which of the following statements is correct when making this decisions?
A. Practical issues are irrelevant when deciding which research method use
B. No one method is universally superior to any other.
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a nor b - If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicate that wealth and martial satisfaction are ____________?
A. casually related
B. negatively correlated
C. independent variables
D. dependent variables
E. None of these - 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 - Viewing people from different groups as individuals and viewing people from different subgroups(such as Scots and English) as members of a single superordinate group represent which two types of prejudice reduction strategies?
A. Intergroup contact
B. Decategorization
C. Recategorization
D. a and b
E. b and c - Dr. Saeed worth in interested in people’s reactions to a controversial jury verdict. Dr. Saeed worth calls people at their home between the hour of 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. In this example Dr. Saeed worth has most likely selected:
A. a biased population
B. a biased sample
C. a representative sample
D. a statistically significant population
