Stephon knows someone whose brother received a very lucrative contract to play professional basketball for the National Basketball Association (NBA). With this success story in mind, he ignores the statistics that indicate a very low probability that anyone will make it to the NBA and overestimates his own chances of making it. This scenario best illustrates

Chapter 2 discusses a study by Burton and his colleagues on people's ability to identify a face that is shown in a video security system. According to the results of this study,

a. people are especially likely to be confident that they correctly identified a person's face if they are familiar with this person. b. people are surprisingly accurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons. c. people are surprisingly inaccurate in identifying the faces of both familiar and unfamiliar persons. d. compared to other people, police officers are more accurate on this face-recognition task.

Your text emphasizes which of the following points about friendship?

a. friends tend to be similar to each other on a number of dimensions such as preference, behavior, and race b. the diversity of friendships of children's parents tends to predict the extent to which children actively seek out others who are very different from themselves on a number of dimensions such as preference, behavior, and race c. children who participate in organized sports tend to develop closer friendships than those who do not d. children who participate in sports tend to be more competitive with their friends than those who do not