Stereotyping allows us to gain potentially useful information for relatively little cognitive effort. What personal and situational factors can make people more likely to use their stereotypes in order to conserve mental effort?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Personal factors: need for structure and mood/emotions. Situational factors: cognitively taxing circumstances, overhearing ethnic slurs (contextual cues).
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A disorder that causes Alzheimer's-like symptoms and cognitive deterioration, as well
as flagrant sexual behavior and a loss of modesty, but does not involve the presence of plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain is ______. a. Parkinson's disease c. frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder b. Wernicke's syndrome d. Huntington's disease
The chi-square test analyzes the frequencies of observations within a special type of table. What is this table called?
a. An AOVA summary table. b. A factorial table. c. A contingency table. d. A Z-score table.