Professor Jenkins surveys his class regarding the effectiveness of marijuana as an
aphrodisiac. 85% of the class strongly believes that marijuana has an aphrodisiac effect.
Professor Jenkins, however, informs his class that, to date, little evidence has supported
this assumption and, in fact, more evidence has actually supported the opposite. The
classes' original assumption depicts:
A) The correlation coefficient
B) The illusory correlation
C) The hindsight bias
D) The placebo effect
C
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A. general memories B. lifetime periods C. event specific memories D. the working self
Why do Kipsigi infants rarely sleep more than 3 hours straight, day or night, for the first year of life?
a. They do not sleep in a separate room and therefore siblings wake them up throughout the night. b. They doze on their mother's back throughout the day and feed often at night. c. Because of the high rates of infant mortality in the Kipsigi culture, mothers wake their infants often to make sure they are still alive. d. Kipsigi adults rarely sleep more than 3 hours straight.