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Question 61

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Political officials who have no doubt that their own economic and military predictions will come true most clearly demonstrate

A) hindsight bias.
B) random assignment.
C) overconfidence.
D) the placebo effect.

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Question 62

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Hindsight bias leads people to perceive psychological research outcomes as

A) unpredictable.
B) inexplicable.
C) unlikely.
D) unsurprising.

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Dr.MacPherson believes that the way students organize and think about the information in their textbooks will strongly influence their ability to later remember and use what they have studied.Dr.MacPherson's ideas most directly exemplify the ________ perspective.

Which research method runs the greatest risk of collecting evidence that may be unrepresentative of what is generally true?

The fact that news programs tend to focus on stories that are likely to increase their ratings,such as murder,mass shootings,and terrorist attacks,explains how ________ can lead to the public's belief of misinformation.

Using scientific methods to investigate the claim that an optimistic outlook on life improves people's physical health best illustrates

Psychologists attempt to let the facts speak for themselves by using an approach that is best described as

Ethical principles developed by psychologists urge investigators to

Looking inward and reporting your immediate sensations,images,and feelings is called

Discovering and promoting human strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive is the major focus of

Wilhelm Wundt was both a

The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random sequences of outcomes often leads us to underestimate the extent to which outcomes result from

Research participants are asked to monitor and report their own immediate sensory reactions to differently colored objects.This research involves a technique known as

The King James Version of the Bible was completed when William Shakespeare was 46 years old.In Psalm 46 of this translation,the forty-sixth word is "shake," and the forty-sixth word from the end is "spear." Before concluding that the biblical translators were trying to be humorous with these specific word placements,you would be best advised to recognize the danger of

Case studies have helped us to understand psychological concepts related to

Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

A descriptive method in which one individual or group is studied in great depth is called a(n)

Each time Samantha has observed a person using government food vouchers to pay for groceries,the person has been an Hispanic female,so she thinks that the vast majority of food voucher users are Hispanic females.Samantha has fallen victim to

Which theorist most clearly influenced William James' efforts to understand the adaptive functions of thinking and consciousness?

Unlike Plato,Aristotle emphasized that knowledge is a product of