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Question 3 In a game where one chooses cards from either a…
Question 3
In a game where one chooses cards from either a high-risk or low-risk stack, participants with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex
behaved the same as participants without brain damage.
picked randomly from either deck.
continued to favor the risky deck.
chose cards from the low-risk stack.
Question 4
Which of the following is true about anchoring?
Anchoring will not occur if you are warned about it or it seems irrelevant.
Overall, people are quite good at avoiding anchoring effects.
While anchoring may occur for reasonable numbers, it does not for unreasonable starting points.
The initial anchor may be related to attitude change
Question 5
Some people think that they’ll be happy for the rest of their lives if they could only win the top prize in the state lottery. Most likely, though, their happiness would return to their typical level after a period of time. This reflects an error in
affective forcasting
belief perseverance
inductive reasoning
attribute substitution
Question 6
According to the research on emotions and decision making, which of the following is FALSE?
People can usually predict whether their reaction will be positive or negative
Emotions have little place in the reasoned process of decision making.
Certain emotions are associated with somatic markers.
People with brain damage impairing the evaluation of their “gut feelings” may make riskier choices.
Question 7
Participants were given a set of numbers (2, 4, 6) and asked to determine the rule. They were most likely to correctly guess the rule behind a series of numbers if they
carefully scrutinized disconfirming evidence for flaws and inconsistencies.
remembered incorrect guesses as almost correct instead of wrong.
asked questions that could disconfirm their theories.
focused on providing support for their own theories.
Question 8
Which of the following is true about deduction reasoning (vs induction)?
all of the above are true
what claims follow from premises
forecast about new cases based on observed cases
we are more likely to follow findings of deduction than induction.
Question 9
Participants were presented with descriptions of two parents in a child-custody case. One parent has moderate traits, while the other has some positive and some negative traits. Based on the framing research, when asked to whom they would deny or award child custody, the majority of people choose
either parent, because the positive and negative traits will, in effect, cancel each other out.
the parent with both positive and negative traits.
the parent with moderate traits.
neither parent, because the choice is too confusing.
Question 10
People who perform well on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT)
are those who answer the questions the fastest.
tend to also be analytic in their moral decision making.
tend not to use heuristics to make judgments.
have more sophisticated and accurate Type I thinking patterns.
Question 11
In general, what are you doing when you try to draw a conclusion from evidence that you have encountered?
making an attribute substitution
using a heuristic
maximizing utility
making a judgment
Question 12
Which of the following would be an example of a biases due to effectiveness of a search mechanism (availability heuristic bias type.)
Superstitious behaviors in general.
Trying to imagine how thick paper would be if you could fold it 100 times.
Thinking more words begin with an R than have R as the 3rd letter of a word.
Finding it easier to recall names of famous people as compared to not famous people.
Question 13
We are very good at predicting our emotional response to a cognitive decision.
True
False
Question 14
Co-occurrence is not necessary for one thing to cause another.
1) False
2) True
Question 15
Gambler’s fallacy is caused by the availability heuristic.
True
False
Question 16
When attempting to solve a problem, “mind wandering”
consistently increases the number of high-quality ideas that actually lead to the problem solution.
data appears to be mixed on effectiveness.
is useful for expertswho have stored their knowledge associativelybut is not useful for novices.
leads to faster problem solving than continuing to consciously work on the problem.
