If You Are Trying to Think of Uses for a Balloon and You Cannot Think of Anything Other Than Entertaining Children, Which Tendency Have You Demonstrated
If you are trying to think of uses for a balloon and you cannot think of anything other than entertaining children, which tendency have you demonstrated?
A) Framing effect
B) Maximizing strategy
C) Functional fixedness
D) Failure to consider base-rate information
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q103: You continue playing a boring video game because it was expensive and you don't want to waste the money.This action is an example of what?
A)Framing effect
B)Functional fixedness
C)Sunk cost effect
D)Availability heuristic
Q104: Under which circumstances are people most likely to make a risky decision?
A)When isolated from other people they know
B)To gain something of value
C)To avoid losing something of value
D)When dealing with highly important matters
Q105: After waiting in line for an hour to buy tickets, you discover that the tickets cost more than you wanted to pay.You buy them anyway, to avoid wasting that much time.What tendency does this show?
A)Confirmation bias
B)Functional fixedness
C)Sunk cost effect
D)Framing effect
Q106: Which of these is an example of the framing effect?
A)Many students will work harder to avoid losing points than to gain extra points.
B)Many people will go out in bad weather to see a show because they already bought tickets.
C)Because people remember cases of airplane crashes, they overestimate their frequency.
D)People tend to assume that every tall man is a basketball player.
Q107: Why did Hungarian author Laszlo Polgar devote
Q109: Athletes,computer programmers,and weather forecasters improve with practice.Psychotherapists
Q110: To develop expertise at something,what type of
Q111: When expert athletes or musicians practice their
Q112: In a wide variety of fields, including chess and violin, what is necessary for developing expertise?
A)Interest in a variety of activities
B)Many years of practice
C)Overall intelligence in the top one percent
D)Exceptionally acute vision and hearing
Q113: If you need something to stir your soup and you overlook the possibility of using a paintbrush, what tendency have you demonstrated?
A)Overlooking base-rate information
B)Maximizing strategy
C)Framing effect
D)Functional fixedness
Unlock this Answer For Free Now!
View this answer and more for free by performing one of the following actions
Scan the QR code to install the App and get 2 free unlocks
Unlock quizzes for free by uploading documents