The ________________involves our tendency to seek out and pay attention to information that supports our preexisting notions, and also to ignore contradictory information

In the movie Grumpier Old Men, the oldest character claims

that he has had bacon, alcohol, and cigarettes every day for his entire adult life and that none of these behaviors have harmed him. If you were to go out now and start doing these behaviors because you felt they were, in fact, safe, you'd be falling prey to the _____. A) explanatory bias B) mental set C) hindsight bias D) availability heuristic

Your neighbor has a 5-year-old son. He has been taking him to story time at the library, but his son is having a very difficult time sitting still even for ten minutes

What would you tell him about his son's brain development? He should be able to sit through the entire story time once what brain structure develops more fully? a. reticular formation b. hippocampus c. corpus callosum d. cerebellum