PSYC 230: M3 Exam 2025/2026 Exam
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Gabrielle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If
we judge the probability of Gabrielle's being a model quite high because
she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using
_____________________
A. the representativeness heuristic.
B. the availability heuristic.
C. framing.
D. the law of small numbers. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
,Making probable conclusions based on evidence
involves_________________reasoning.
A. deductive
B. syllogistic
C. inductive
D. connective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔C
The finding that people tend to incorrectly conclude that more people die
from tornados than from asthma has been explained in terms of the
A. representativeness heuristic.
B. availability heuristic.
C. falsification principle.
D. belief bias. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
The interactionist approach to parsing states that
,A. semantics is activated only at the end of a sentence.
B. semantics is activated as a sentence is being read.
C. the grammatical structure of a sentence determines the initial parsing.
D. semantics is only activated to clear up ambiguity. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more
A. slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.
B. slowly to letters appearing in non-words than letters appearing in words.
C. quickly to letters that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a
word.
D. quickly to phonemes that appear multiple times in a word than just once
in a word. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
In a lexical decision task, participants have to decide whether
A. a statement is true.
B. a letter string is a word.
C. a stimulus is presented.
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, D. two stimuli are associated. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
Discounting refers to
A. the tendency to reduce the value of a reward if there is a cost associated
with it.
B. the tendency to represent value in a propositional code.
C. the tendency for reaction times to decrease under time pressure.
D. the rate at which people reduce the value of an outcome - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔A
In the Ultimatum Game, people usually _____ offers that are less than 20%
of the total amount of money when playing with another person.
A. accept
B. consider
C. reject
D. prefer
((Two players are given an endowments
Player 1 is the proposer - proposes a split of a certain amount of money
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Gabrielle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If
we judge the probability of Gabrielle's being a model quite high because
she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using
_____________________
A. the representativeness heuristic.
B. the availability heuristic.
C. framing.
D. the law of small numbers. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
,Making probable conclusions based on evidence
involves_________________reasoning.
A. deductive
B. syllogistic
C. inductive
D. connective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔C
The finding that people tend to incorrectly conclude that more people die
from tornados than from asthma has been explained in terms of the
A. representativeness heuristic.
B. availability heuristic.
C. falsification principle.
D. belief bias. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
The interactionist approach to parsing states that
,A. semantics is activated only at the end of a sentence.
B. semantics is activated as a sentence is being read.
C. the grammatical structure of a sentence determines the initial parsing.
D. semantics is only activated to clear up ambiguity. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more
A. slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.
B. slowly to letters appearing in non-words than letters appearing in words.
C. quickly to letters that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a
word.
D. quickly to phonemes that appear multiple times in a word than just once
in a word. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
In a lexical decision task, participants have to decide whether
A. a statement is true.
B. a letter string is a word.
C. a stimulus is presented.
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, D. two stimuli are associated. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B
Discounting refers to
A. the tendency to reduce the value of a reward if there is a cost associated
with it.
B. the tendency to represent value in a propositional code.
C. the tendency for reaction times to decrease under time pressure.
D. the rate at which people reduce the value of an outcome - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔A
In the Ultimatum Game, people usually _____ offers that are less than 20%
of the total amount of money when playing with another person.
A. accept
B. consider
C. reject
D. prefer
((Two players are given an endowments
Player 1 is the proposer - proposes a split of a certain amount of money
