If you intentionally put yourself at a disadvantage to provide an excuse for failure, you are engaged in a self-_______ strategy

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

handicapping

Psychology

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Marylou is making her famous chili. Instead of measuring the amount of chopped peppers to add, she knows that a handful is "usually about right." This illustrates the use of a(n) ________

a. heuristic. b. prototype. c. algorithm. d. mental image.

Psychology

In informal surveys, people always overestimate the number of lesbians who have AIDS. Lesbians actually have extremely low rates of AIDS, but people tend to associate lesbians with gay men (who have relatively high rates). Thus, people tend to think that they see a lesbian-AIDS relationship when in fact there is no such relationship. This is a good example of the ____

a. false consensus effect b. illusory correlation c. belief in a just world hypothesis d. contrast effect

Psychology