Exam 8: Section 1 : Accuracy and Efficiency in Social Interference

Consider a professional basketball team. Which of the following would be the best predictor of an individual player's performance in a particular game?

Which of the following brain regions is most closely associated with neural processing of rewards, goals, and learning?

Which of the following has research shown to generalize training effects in teaching reasoning, allowing participants to improve in domains in which they have and have not been explicitly trained?

Motivated inferences can result in which of the following?

In this chapter, the authors provided an example of the graduate school admissions process to demonstrate the flaws of which of the following?

Sometimes, a person who wishes to express her love for another will present the target with a list of reasons underlying her affection. Based on the research in this chapter, which of the following best describes a possible consequence of this introspection?

Departures from normative models of inference often result in which of the following?

If a colleague of yours observes a waitress drop a plate of food and concludes that all waitresses are clumsy, which of the following is your colleague ignoring?

According to the research presented in this chapter, which of the following is the best way of screening potential college applicants, if the goal is to recruit students who will do well on objective criteria, such as grades, time to graduation, and subsequent job placement?

If a friend of yours had to make a rapid, accurate inference, which of the following would be the least helpful?

Which of the following would cast doubt on characterizations based on preexisting theories?

In a classic study, some children were asked to refrain from eating a marshmallow at the present in exchange for a future reward of multiple marshmallows. During processing of this proposal, which of the following brain regions was most likely to be especially active?

The ________ system has been shown to be critical to value assessment and involved in signaling errors in reward prediction, generating learning signals, updating goal states, and updating attentional focus on working memory.

According to Dijksterhuis, which of the following decisions would be most likely to benefit by a careful considerations of pros and cons?

Which of the following would best describe an error in inference according to the law of large numbers?

Which of the following best describes what is meant by a "normative model"?

Research shows that people often hold blatantly false beliefs. Which of the following is NOT a reason why certain robust inferential biases exist?

Several musical artists are described as "one-hit wonders". Their first hit song or album is incredibly popular, but their second album passes under the radar. Which of the following best describes such occurrences?

Which of the following is NOT a problem with the sole use of normative models in evaluating intuitive inferences?

Standard economic theory best fits with which of the following?