Chap 01 15e Cozby
1) Which of the following strongly influenced the 2005 Supreme Court decision that juveniles
could not face the death penalty?
A) behavioral research on human development
B) statistical research on judicial decisions
C) the Milgram experiment's conclusions
D) applied research undertaken by corporations
2) Which of the following is most likely to be a problem associated with intuition?
A) questioning one's own personal judgment
B) finding an explanation for one's own behavior or the behaviors of others
C) explaining the intriguing events that one may observe
D) drawing erroneous conclusions based on cognitive or motivational biases
3) ________ is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person focuses on two events that stand out
and occur together.
A) Skepticism
B) Falsifiability
C) Illusory correlation
D) Temporal precedence
4) When people unquestionably accept what their own personal judgment tells them about the
world, they are relying on
A) skepticism.
B) authority.
C) intuition.
D) science.
5) Many people readily accept anything they learn from religious figures or government
officials because of their belief in
A) skepticism.
B) authority.
C) pseudoscience.
D) empiricism.
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1) Which of the following strongly influenced the 2005 Supreme Court decision that juveniles
could not face the death penalty?
A) behavioral research on human development
B) statistical research on judicial decisions
C) the Milgram experiment's conclusions
D) applied research undertaken by corporations
2) Which of the following is most likely to be a problem associated with intuition?
A) questioning one's own personal judgment
B) finding an explanation for one's own behavior or the behaviors of others
C) explaining the intriguing events that one may observe
D) drawing erroneous conclusions based on cognitive or motivational biases
3) ________ is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person focuses on two events that stand out
and occur together.
A) Skepticism
B) Falsifiability
C) Illusory correlation
D) Temporal precedence
4) When people unquestionably accept what their own personal judgment tells them about the
world, they are relying on
A) skepticism.
B) authority.
C) intuition.
D) science.
5) Many people readily accept anything they learn from religious figures or government
officials because of their belief in
A) skepticism.
B) authority.
C) pseudoscience.
D) empiricism.
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