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In the context of political perceptions, people everywhere perceive mediators and the media as


A) biased in favor of their position.
B) objective in their decisions and coverage.
C) biased against their position.
D) favoring the ruling party.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Researchers had male students speak by telephone with women they thought were either attractive or unattractive. When the researchers later analyzed the women's comments, they found that the


A) women thought to be attractive spoke more warmly than the other women.
B) women thought to be unattractive tried harder to be likable and stimulated better conversation.
C) women thought to be attractive spoke in a more aloof and superior manner.
D) women thought to be unattractive spoke more slowly and deliberately.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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A

Murray and his colleagues (2003) found that, among married couples, the self-fulfilling prophecy occurred when one person interpreted slight hurts as rejections. The person who felt rejected was then motivated to


A) value their partner for his or her honesty.
B) value their partner yet become distant from him or her.
C) devalue their partner but make an effort to become close to him or her.
D) devalue their partner and become distant from him or her.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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D

Which of the following statements regarding overconfidence is true?


A) Usually, people are aware of their errors.
B) Competence feeds overconfidence.
C) Overconfident individuals are good decision makers.
D) People tend to be more confident than they are correct.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Once during a hospital stay, you observed a man and a woman (both in health professional attire) talking. You assumed that the man was a physician and that the woman was a nurse. Later, you found out the opposite was true. What type of heuristic did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals?


A) availability heuristic
B) representativeness heuristic
C) vividness heuristic
D) matching heuristic

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Despite reading numerous research studies that report the association of fast food consumption with heart disease and diabetes, Rachel continues to eat fast food and thinks that it is harmless. Rachel's thinking is an example of


A) belief assimilation.
B) belief consolidation.
C) belief perseverance.
D) operation of the availability heuristic.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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The tendency to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs is called the


A) perseverance bias.
B) fundamental attribution error.
C) correspondence bias.
D) overconfidence phenomenon.

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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While waiting to cross the street, you witness a man running a red light-causing a three-car accident. Just after it happens, the man who ran the stoplight gets out of the car to talk to you. He tells you that the light was yellow. Later you tell police that you remembered the light being yellow, not red, when the man went through the intersection. This scenario illustrates


A) the priming effect.
B) the confirmation bias.
C) belief perseverance.
D) the misinformation effect.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Those who make situational attributions regarding poverty and unemployment tend to adopt political positions that


A) offer more direct support to the poor.
B) are unsympathetic to the poor.
C) tend to blame the poor for their problems.
D) are more neutral regarding poverty and unemployment.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Amy, a B student, got a 100% on her first psychology test. According to the regression toward the average phenomenon, what grade should Amy expect on her second test?


A) a 75% (C)
B) another 100%
C) an 85% (B)
D) a 65% (D)

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Incorporating inaccurate information into one's memory of an event, after witnessing the event and receiving misleading information about it is called


A) the priming effect.
B) the confirmation bias.
C) the information processing fallacy.
D) the misinformation effect.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Although you once earned a 100 on your physics exam, you have subsequently been unable to earn a perfect score again. Your experience may be understood in terms of


A) the illusory correlation.
B) regression toward the average.
C) the representativeness heuristic.
D) counterfactual thinking.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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B

Which of the following strategies might be helpful in reducing the overconfidence bias?


A) Get people to think about why their judgments might be wrong.
B) Delay feedback regarding the accuracy of their judgments.
C) Inform people about the overconfidence bias.
D) Tell people that there is no remedy for the overconfidence bias.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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While sitting at a red light on her way to work, Amber fumes, "Why is it every time I'm late for work I get stuck at these red lights?" Amber most clearly holds a(n)


A) illusory correlation.
B) illusion of control.
C) representativeness heuristic.
D) self-fulfilling prophecy.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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We tend to underestimate the situational determinants of others' behavior but not our own because we perceive others in a different manner than our own selves. This is known as the


A) actor-observer perspective.
B) camera perspective bias.
C) false uniqueness effect.
D) self-awareness phenomenon.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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After 9/11, many people abandoned air travel most likely because of the


A) availability heuristic.
B) representativeness heuristic.
C) confirmation bias.
D) planning fallacy.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Your best friend is a master chess player and has won numerous awards. When you play chess with her, you notice that she seems to be aware of strategies almost immediately after your move. Her awareness of these strategies reflects what type of thinking?


A) controlled processing
B) automatic processing
C) internal processing
D) intentional processing

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Which of the following best explains why Olympic bronze medalists express more happiness than silver medalists?


A) counterfactual thinking
B) overconfidence phenomenon
C) representativeness heuristic
D) fundamental attribution error

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Those who make dispositional attributions regarding poverty and unemployment tend to adopt political positions that


A) offer more direct support to the poor.
B) are unsympathetic to the poor.
C) tend to blame the environment for their problems.
D) are more neutral regarding poverty and unemployment.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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In a study conducted by Lassiter and his colleagues (2005) , participants observed a suspect confessing during a police interview. The results indicated that participants were more likely to perceive the confession as coerced when they viewed the confession


A) live.
B) through a two-way mirror.
C) with a camera focused on the suspect.
D) with a camera focused on the detective.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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