According to B.F. Skinner, a behaviorist, how is personality viewed?
a. as variable and unpredictable
b. as gradually progressing through stages
c. as stable, across situations and time
d. as flexible and contingent upon the environment
d. as flexible and contingent upon the environment
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Gwen has posted a questionnaire on MySpace asking her friends to support her idea of cell phones in the classroom. She ignores anyone opposing her beliefs, which is an example of
A) naïve realism. Incorrect. Naïve realism suggests that we believe that we see the world precisely as it is. The best answer to this question is the confirmation bias. B) conjunctive fallacy. C) confirmation bias. Correct. The confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information that supports our point of view and ignore evidence that contradicts our point of view. D) attribution bias.
A _______________ is a statistical measure that provides, with a specified probability, a range of values within which the mean of a population is likely to lie
a. confidence interval b. standard deviation c. significance test d. descriptive statistic