The tendency of individuals who believe that AIDS is something that happens to "other people," such as homosexual men, tend to remember articles about rates of infection among homosexual men more than articles about AIDS cases among people like
themselves is an example of the ______.
a. availability heuristic c. representativeness heuristic
b. idealized cognitive model d. confirmation bias
D
Psychology
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The mind-body problem refers to how the mind controls the body
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Psychology
A monkey has learned through classical conditioning that if a buzzer sounds it's feeding time. When the buzzer sounds, the monkey runs rapidly to where the bananas will be placed in the cage. A bell is now paired repeatedly with the buzzer, but the monkey continues to respond only to the buzzer. This is because of the phenomenon known as:
a. hypnotic hypermnesia b. blocking c. retrograde amnesia d. chunking
Psychology