AP Psychology Thinking

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After the student council election, a friend tells you he could have guessed who would be elected president. What psychological phenomenon might this illustrate?

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Hindsight bias

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The tendency to exaggerate the correctness or accuracy of our beliefs and predictions is called

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overconfidence.

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To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:

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an algorithm.

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Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

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functional fixedness.

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A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies to make the defendant appear to be a typical member of the local community. What cognitive bias is she attempting to take advantage of?

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the representativeness heuristic.

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Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third. This best illustrates:

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framing.

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Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as:

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belief perserverance

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The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to

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save time in arriving at solutions to problems.

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Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to:

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Look for information that is consistent with one’s beliefs

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A strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how easily other instances of the event are available in memory is called the:

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Availability heuristic