When Just and Carpenter asked participants to report the relative heights of craftsmen
brothers based on a passage they had just read, their results showed that participants
were slower at providing answers when information was directly available
than when it
was only implied. This was because the participants
a. had problems caused by too much information.
b. were making inferences based on mental models.
c. were generally rather unpracticed with the formal logic required by deductive reasoning.
d. were unable to arrange the abstract information into a spatial model.
e. confused the type of reasoning that was called for.
b. were making inferences based on mental models.
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a. engage in self-induced vomiting. b. try to rid themselves of what they feel to be evil demons. c. use various means to eliminate the food that they have consumed during their binges. d. cannot easily be distinguished from individuals with anorexia nervosa.
Information that is known to others but unknown to self is found in which quadrant of the Johari window?
a. Public/open quadrant b. Private/hidden quadrant c. Blind quadrant d. Unknown/unconscious quadrant