The extent to which results observed in a study will generalize across settings or environments is called ______.

Gwen has posted a questionnaire on MySpace asking her friends to support her idea of cell phones in the classroom. She ignores anyone opposing her beliefs, which is an example of

A) naïve realism. Incorrect. Naïve realism suggests that we believe that we see the world precisely as it is. The best answer to this question is the confirmation bias. B) conjunctive fallacy. C) confirmation bias. Correct. The confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information that supports our point of view and ignore evidence that contradicts our point of view. D) attribution bias.

Despite our best efforts to train lower animals to engage in more sophisticated actions, those animals often maintain or revert back to their instinctual behavior, a phenomenon known as instinctive __________

a. regression b. baseline c. drift d. homing