Which of the following measures involves sampling behavior with a task?
a. putting a number of objects in front of a child and having the child count them
b. listening to children's everyday conversations and recording the complexity of their sentence structures
c. asking children how much television they watch in one week
d. having children fill out a questionnaire about their study habits
a
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Suppose that a quiz show host asks a contestant which city in France has the greater population, Paris or Nantes. The contestant immediately responds, "Paris." According to the discussion of decision making,
a. this is an example of an illusory correlation. b. people usually have difficulty in answering questions that use the anchoring and adjustment heuristic . c. this is a variant of the representativeness heuristic. d. this is an example of the recognition heuristic.
You have been asked to participate on a committee charged with designing the ideal middle school. Given your knowledge of middle schools and middle school students, what design recommendations would you suggest to the committee?
Discuss three recommendations you would offer and the rationale for each. What will be an ideal response?