You decide that a bearded professor wearing a rumpled sports coat is a member of the art faculty, rather than the business school faculty (which actually has more members) because he looks like an artist. What judgment error have you committed?
a. You relied too heavily on the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
b. You should not have trusted your hindsight so completely.
c. You should have been more aware of the law of large numbers.
d. You did not pay enough attention to the base rate.
Ans: d
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Reginald recently took a personality test that measures the Big Five traits. He scores very high on openness. How would Eysenck interpret these findings?
a) Reginald will be likely to score very high on neuroticism. b) Reginald will be likely to score very high on extraversion. c) Reginald will be likely to score very high on introversion. d) Openness is a cognitive ability trait, not a temperament, and should be measured by an appropriate IQ test.
According to Albert Bandura, a person's belief about his or her skills and ability to perform certain behaviors is known as ________
a) self-efficacy b) locus of control c) phenomenology d) reciprocal determinism