Psych 449

Let's see how Quizzizz works. Time to practice!

What year are you in?

• Freshman

• Sophomore

• Junior

• Senior

Avery read a terrifying story about a young girl who was kidnapped from her back yard. She now no longer lets her small children play by themselves in the yard, despite the fact that she regularly lets them play indoors by themselves. This is an example of:

• The anchoring effect

• The representativeness heuristic

• The availability heuristic

• The simulation heuristic

The concept of change blindness is illustrated when you...

• Enter a room and everyone stops what they are doing and looks at you.

• Struggle to pay attention to your homework because you are so tired.

• Are so absorbed in a book that you don’t notice when your roommate enters the room.

• Are so focused on what your professor is saying in class that you neglect to take notes.

The belief that someone who has been successful in a task or activity is more likely to be successful again is called...

• Availability heuristic

• Hot hand fallacy

• Gambler's fallacy

• Affect heuristic

What is the difference between Prospect Theory and Expected Utility Theory?

• Prospect theory lacks a weighting function like the utility function of EUT

• Prospect theory treats probabilities linearly, unlike EUT's decision weighting function

• EUT has no way of handling belief differences, unlike prospect theory

• EUT pays no attention to the framing, while prospect theory treats gains and losses differently

Which of these is not directly linked to loss aversion?

• Status quo bias

• Sunk cost fallacy

• Endowment effect

• Regression to the mean

20% of the emails that Naina receives are spam. Her spam filter is 90% reliable - meaning it filters out 90% of spam emails. The spam filter marks 36% of all emails of spam. What is the chance that an email in Naina's spam filter is actually spam?

• 50%

• 62%

• 46%

• 76%

Prior to an soccer game between two rival teams, the police predicts that extreme fans from both teams will engage in hooliganism and violence against each other. They increase the police presence at the game. After hearing about this in the news, many of the extreme fans decide to stay home. This is an example for the

• Representativeness heuristic

• Availability heuristic

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Self-defeating prophecy

Please choose the most likely outcome.

Professional hockey has become one of the most violent sports to play. This fact, in turn, makes professional hockey players a risk group for certain accidents and health problems. Suppose that we randomly choose a professional hockey player and review the health reports throughout his career.

• The player has experienced a concussion.

• The player has experienced a concussion and has suffered some memory loss.

• The player has experienced a concussion but has not suffered any memory loss.

Let's say, in our example, the hockey player had a concussion AND experienced memory loss. According to the outcome bias, what should now be true?

• People who chose another option might think "My original option was a wiser choice. I was right to pick it."

• People who chose another option might think "I should have chosen this one instead."

• People who chose this option might think "I originally chose this option, because I knew it all along. "

• People who chose this option might think "I should have chosen another one instead."