Module 2 Quiz Flashcards
Oliver tells Kate that his dad took a second job at the mall over the holiday season. Oliver’s dad has a long white beard, a round belly, and a jolly laugh, so Kate guesses that he worked as a mall Santa. Kate is probably relying on which of the following in making this judgment?
a. Prior probabilities
b. Anchoring and adjustment
c. Representativeness
d. Regression to the mean
e. System 2
c. Representativeness
Imagine that Ben and Eva are Honours students who are both collecting data in the lab for a project examining the correlation between fruit consumption and IQ among UBC students. Ben has a busy schedule this term, so he can only run 5 people per week through the study, whereas Eva runs 20 people per week. They know the average IQ among UBC students is 125. At the end of the first week though, one of the Honours students finds that the average IQ among their own participants was 140, while the other Honours student finds that the average IQ among their participants was 123. Their friend Jake has never taken a psychology class, and just for fun, they ask him to guess the results. Based on this week’s reading, what is most likely to be true?
a. Ben’s participants had an average IQ of 140
b. Eva’s participants had an average IQ of 140
c. Jake will guess that Ben’s participants had an average IQ of 140
d. Jake will guess that Eva’s participants had an average IQ of 140
a. Ben’s participants had an average IQ of 140
Think back to the study by Kelly in which a guest professor gave a lecture. This study most clearly illustrates which of the following ideas?
a. Misconceptions of chance
b. Misconceptions of regression
c. Science is a conversation
d. The power of the situation
e. The importance of subjective construal
e. The importance of subjective construal
Imagine that your classmate tells you that they did this week’s reading before watching the videos, and they found the reading confusing. You remind them of Dr. Dunn’s recommendation to do the reading AFTER watching the videos. What example or study should you remind them about to support this recommendation?
a. The example of believing that the new roommate Suzie is shy
b. The study in which teachers were told that some students would bloom
c. The example of recalling a set of instructions with or without seeing a picture of a washing machine
d. The study in which men were approached by a female experimenter on a stable or shaky bridge
e. Both A and B
c. The example of recalling a set of instructions with or without seeing a picture of a washing machine
Your friends Lin and Kia are math majors who usually spend about an hour working on problem sets. They are each enrolled in different sections of the same large math class. They have the same professor and the same assignments, but they have different TA’s. Lin’s TA tells all of his students that they should spend about 30 minutes on each problem set. Kia’s TA tells all of her students that they should spend about 2 hours on each problem set. As a result, Lin typically spends 45 minutes on each problem set, while Kia spends 90 minutes. What study/example should you tell your friends about to explain why Kia is spending twice as much time as Lin on the exact same problem sets?
a. The study in which people recalled 6 or 12 times they behaved assertively.
b. The study in which German judges read about a shoplifting case.
c. The example in which a gorilla walked through the room while you counted passes.
d. The study in which men were approached by a female experimenter on a stable or shaky bridge.
e. The study in which people judged whether personality descriptions belonged to engineers or lawyers.
b. The study in which German judges read about a shoplifting case.
