4
0.2 points
In Lewis Terman's comparison of A group and C group geniuses, what accounted for the differences in their success?
height
personality factors
socioeconomic factors
gender
5
0.2 points
Joyce wants to leave her friend a note on the windshield of her car, but she doesn't have any tape. So she takes the gum out of her mouth and uses it to stick the note to the
windshield. Which problem solving roadblock did Joyce overcome?
trial-and-error
functional fixedness
availability heuristic
insight
6
0.2 points
A researcher asked smokers and non-smokers to estimate the percentage of adults in the United States who smoke cigarettes. Smokers estimated that 20% of adults in the US
smoked. Non-smokers estimated that 5% of adults in the US smoked. In fact, about 12% of adults in the United States smoke cigarettes. The researcher also found that smokers
tended to have other friends who smoked, which may have inflated their estimates, while just the opposite was true for non-smokers, who reported having far fewer friends who
smoked. This is an example of a(n)
availability heuristic
belief-bias effect
fallacy of positive instances
representative heuristic
