Even though Vlad never actually exercises, you have always assumed that he is an athlete because he hangs around at the gym (like other athletes), drinks bottled water nonstop, and wears sweat suits everywhere. Your (false) assumption that Vlad is an athlete is most clearly an example of the ____

a. availability heuristic
b. actor-observer bias
c. representativeness heuristic
d. anchoring and adjustment heuristic

C

Psychology

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Your client, Linda, who is a Native American, tells you that spirits live in the trees near her home. To be an effective counselor, you will need to judge Linda's behavior in relation to the values of the Native American culture. This example illustrates the idea of

a. social accommodation. b. ethnocentrism. c. cultural relativity. d. cultural assimilation.

Psychology

In the repeated-measures t statistic, the value for the estimated standard error in the denominator is computed entirely from the sample data

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology