In a study described in the textbook, participants memorized either the word reckless or the word adventurous before reading an ambiguous passage about Donald in which he was described as engaging in a number of recreational activities
(e.g., driving in a demolition derby, white-water rafting) in which he had risked injury and even death. This method was used to study the concept of
a. priming.
b. attribution formation.
c. representativeness.
d. counterfactual thinking.
Answer: A
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a. the atrocities perpetuated on the Jews by the Nazis b. the stock market crash of 1929 c. the bombing of Pearl Harbor d. prisoner behavior at Abu Ghraib prison
After seeing your new neighbor walking very stiffly and primly by your house wearing horn-rimmed glasses on a chain, a cardigan sweater, and her hair in a bun, you decide she must be a librarian. Your judgment is based on
a. subjective probability. b. subjective utility. c. the availability heuristic. d. the representativeness heuristic.