Exam 26: Storage: Retaining Information

The availability heuristic refers to our tendency to

Kevin succeeds in getting his children to do chores by using threats.He fails to recognize that kindness would be even more effective in gaining their cooperation.Kevin's shortsightedness best illustrates a consequence of

Max is so used to thinking that a tough competitive style of behavior is the best way to impress others that he fails to recognize that the most effective way to impress his girlfriend is with cooperative tenderness.Max's oversight best illustrates

Professor Pegler's research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks.Which specialty area does his research best represent?

Recently experienced local weather conditions often have a greater impact on people's perceived threat of global climate warming than less memorable scientific data regarding long-term planetary weather trends.This best illustrates the impact of

A televised image of a starving child had a greater impact on Mr.White's perception of how widespread hunger is than did a statistical chart summarizing the worldwide scope of the problem.This suggests that his understanding of the world hunger problem was influenced by

Forest-dwelling chimpanzees use a light,flexible stick for fishing for termites.This illustrates their naturally developed use of

People with a superficial understanding of proposals for political change often express excessively strong pro or con views.This best illustrates the impact of

By encouraging people to imagine their homes being destroyed by winds from a hurricane,insurance salespeople are especially successful at selling expensive homeowners' policies.They are most clearly exploiting the influence of

Dr.Schmidt is convinced that playing violent video games is not associated with aggressive behavior in children.When presented with research showing a link between the two,Dr.Schmidt ignores the evidence by claiming the research is flawed.He has engaged in

People are likely to take less time to recognize a woman as a nurse than a man as a nurse because a woman more closely resembles their nurse

Estimating the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent,or match,particular prototypes is referred to as

People told that a chemical in the air is projected to kill 10 of every 10,000 people feel more frightened than if told the fatality risk is one-tenth of 1 percent.This best illustrates the importance of

Insight refers to

Ojinska sold many more raffle tickets when she told people they had a 10 percent chance of winning a prize than when she told them they had a 90 percent chance of not winning.This best illustrates the importance of

Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct,many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity.Their reaction best illustrates

Professor Chadwick evaluated a graduate student's research proposal negatively simply because he had heard a rumor about the student's incompetence.When later informed that the rumor had been patently false,the professor's assessment of the student's research proposal remained almost as negative as it had been originally.This best illustrates

________ may lead us to ignore other relevant information as we intuitively compare something to a particular prototype.

The inability to solve the matchstick problem may be associated with

Expanding the number of possible solutions to a problem illustrates