The gambler's fallacy is thought of as a special instance of ______.

A) framing
B) availability
C) belief in the law of small numbers
D) hindsight

Combining many items in a test to eliminate idiosyncrasies of any one item

A) Reliable
B) Valid
C) Generalizable
D) Measurement error
E) Aggregation
F) Precision

Margaret fell down her basement stairs and suffered serious injury to her amygdala.What memory problems is she most likely to have now?

A) Margaret will have difficulty remembering her address and telephone number.
B) Margaret will have difficulty adding numbers.
C) Margaret will have difficulty with emotional memories.
D) Margaret will have difficulty with short-term memories.

Which theorists have a psychogenic approach to understanding psychopathology?

A) Freud; Watson; Meichenbaum
B) Morel; Freud; Watson
C) Kraeplin; Morel; Freud
D) Krafft-Ebing; Morel; Cerletti
E) Cerletti; Janet; Pavlov

Jason and Alex are biologically unrelated adolescents who were adopted as infants and raised together.For which of the following are Jason and Alex LEAST likely to resemble each other any more than they resemble a genetically unrelated adolescent from another home in their neighborhood?

A) extraversion
B) religious beliefs
C) table manners
D) political attitudes

The best evidence we have to date suggests that early-onset Alzheimer's disease is transmitted genetically in families that:

A) transmit mutations of certain protein-producing genes.
B) have many members with the sporadic form of the disease.
C) have no members with the disease but transmit genetically recessive traits.
D) do not have a clear history of the disease.