Devonia, a recent acquaintance of yours, is an attractive, outgoing, and ambitious
woman.
When someone asks you whether she isa secretary or a manager, you reply, "I
don't know for sure but knowing what she is like,I'd say that she is an executive." Your
response reflects the use of__________ heuristic.
a. representativeness
b. availability
c. positive consensus
d. actor-observer
e. base-rate
a. representativeness
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Your textbook presents the case of Mrs. J, who had great difficulty accepting the loss of her husband. Mrs. J believed her husband died due to the inadequacy of his care in a nursing home. She was experiencing great anger over this and thought about it
frequently. Which of the following best describes her condition? a. Mrs. J. was experiencing pathological depression. b. Mrs. J's reaction was seen as normal grieving. c. Mrs. J was diagnosed as clinically grieving. d. Mrs. J was diagnosed with grief compounded by OCD.
In one procedure designed to produce spoonerisms, participants are asked to silently read lists of word pairs that are models for the sound structure of target spoonerisms, then pronounce word pairs out loud. Such studies have found that
a. spoonerisms with idioms are almost impossible to produce. b. spoonerisms are more likely when the error still results in real words. c. errors in blending idioms are more common when the idioms do not share the same underlying meaning. d. there is no relationship between errors and production of real words.