COG PSYCH CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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COG PSYCH CHAPTER 13
2. Making probable conclusions based on evidence involves _____ reasoning. - CORRECT ANSWER inductive
30. At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc., was asked to determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the U.S. started coll...
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2. Making probable conclusions based on evidence involves _____ reasoning. -
CORRECT ANSWER inductive
30. At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc., was asked to
determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the
U.S. started collecting data immediately, calling people at their residences. One hour
later, the attitudes from 10,000 Americans, across all 50 states, were collected. A staff
member called the CEO, still at her lunch meeting, to tell her the results of the poll:
America's favorite day of the week is Monday. Given your text's discussion of inductive
reasoning in science, we might suspect that the observations in this poll are not
representative because - CORRECT ANSWER the people who are home to answer
the phone in the early afternoon are not an appropriate cross-section of the U.S.
population.
Research in neuroeconomics has found that the function of the ______ may be to deal
with the cognitive demands of a given task, while the ______ is responsible for handling
emotional goals such as resenting an unfair outcome. - CORRECT ANSWER
prefrontal cortex; insula
31. Bonnie has ordered her monthly supply of medicines through the mail for the past
five years. Except for one order, all orders have arrived within two business days. Bonnie
placed an order yesterday, and she expects to receive her order tomorrow. Bonnie is
using - CORRECT ANSWER inductive reasoning.
32. Derrick purchased a new car, a Ford Mustang, less than a month ago. While sitting in
traffic, Derrick says to his girlfriend, "Mustangs must be the best-selling car now. I can't
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remember seeing as many on the road as I have recently." Derrick's judgment is most
likely biased by a(n) - CORRECT ANSWER availability heuristic
33. Wally and Sharon are out on a date. When Sharon asks Wally where they should go
for dinner, Wally says "My coworkers keep telling me about that new Japanese place
downtown, so it must be a great place to eat." Wally's response illustrates the use of
a(n) - CORRECT ANSWER availability heuristic.
34. The finding that people tend to incorrectly conclude that more people die from
tornados than from asthma has been explained in terms of the - CORRECT ANSWER
availability heuristic
35. Mia has lived in New York City all her life. She has noticed that people from upper
Manhattan walk really fast, but people from lower Manhattan tend to walk slowly. Mia's
observations are likely influenced from a judgment error based on her using -
CORRECT ANSWER an illusory correlation.
36. Stereotypes are reinforced by all of the following EXCEPT - CORRECT ANSWER
the falsification principle.
37. Gabrielle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If we
judge the probability of Gabrielle's being a model quite high because she resembles our
stereotype of a model, we are using - CORRECT ANSWER the representative
heuristic.
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