Exam 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Which of the following is a thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments?

Which of the following strategies will NOT be helpful in reducing the overconfidence bias?

When people viewed a videotape of a suspect confessing during a police interview with a camera focused on the suspect, they perceived the confession as genuine. If the camera was instead focused on the detective, they perceived it as more coerced. This is an example of

Describe how behavioral confirmation can take place in a classroom.

Counterfactual thinking is more likely when

According to research done by Miller and his colleagues (1975), if you want young children to put trash in wastebaskets, you should repeatedly

Each semester, you repeatedly underestimate how long it will take you to complete a research paper that is due at the end of the term. Your behavior is an example of the

In the context of fundamental attribution error, observers tend to attribute a person's behavior to _____ with the passage of time.

Attributing behavior to a person's traits is called _____ attribution.

Researchers provided study participants with evidence that either risk-prone or cautious people make better firefighters. When participants wrote an explanation for the findings, they were particularly susceptible to

Provide an example of the fundamental attribution error, and be sure to explain why the error is considered "fundamental."

Jack and Jill are playing a game of "Monopoly." Jack is losing, but if he rolls at least an 11, he'll be able to pass "Go" and collect $200. When his turn comes he throws the dice as hard as he can in hopes of rolling a high number. Jack most clearly holds a(n)

Jim who scored less in a subject regretted for not having studied sufficiently and wished he could have been more serious during his exams. This is an example of

Sharon typically watches televised news stations that support her existing political beliefs. She is less inclined to watch the news on other stations, as it may disprove her preconceptions. Sharon's approach illustrates the

Activating particular associations in memory is called

Fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers to _____ situational influences and _____dispositional influences on behavior.

In the context of reconstructing past attitudes, researchers had students write essays opposing student control over university curricula. When asked to recall how they had felt about the same issue a week earlier most of the students

The tendency to imagine alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened but did not is called

Which statement is NOT correct as it relates to mood and judgment?

In a study conducted by Ridge and Reber (2002), men had to interview women for a teaching assistant position. The men were told that job candidates were either attracted to them or not attracted. The findings revealed that the