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According to construal theory, if you are visualizing working on your thesis in graduate school in several years, you are probably thinking about
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The overall goal of how your thesis will help you to finish graduate school
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Which of the following examples of “common sense” may be because of the representative heuristic?
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You should avoid potato chips if you suffer from greasy and acne
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One of the most prevalent sources of distortion in secondhand accounts to the textbook is
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The desire to entertain
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Information processing limitations help explain why our judgements can depend on the order in which information is presented. For example, primary effects often result from
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A tendency to pay great attention to information presented early on
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Julie has good intentions when she tells her niece, “You shouldn’t date a boy with a tattoo. A girl down the street dated a boy with a tattoo and he ended up assaulting he.” If this story is a deceptive exaggeration, Julie is engaging in
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Ideological distortion
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Luis mostly chooses to watch news programs that support his political beliefs while avoiding news programs that may disagree with his views. What is this an example of?
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Motivativated confirmation bias
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Because schemas have been shown to influence _____, participants who are told to watch a video of a basketball game and count the number of times people in white shirts pass the ball might completely miss seeing a person in a black gorilla suit walk through the game.
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Attention
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According to the primary effect, which of these people will be rated more favorably. Person A who is described as being “intelligent, stubborn, and lazy.” Or person B who is described as being stubborn, lazy, and intelligent”?
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Person A
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In 1992, Ross Perot asked voters, “Should the president have the line-item veto to eliminate waste?” 97 percent said yes. When the question was asked in more neutral terms -- “Should the president have the line item veto or not?” -- only 57 percent agreed. This example best illustrates.
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Spin framing
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One reason negative feedback may be more salient to us than positive feedback is that.
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Negative feedback may give more information about a potential threat
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