What evidence argues against the idea that practicing music improves hearing?
A) Highly practiced musicians have no better hearing than other people, on average.
B) The ability to hear well is known to depend entirely on a single gene.
C) Twins are similar in hearing, even if only one practiced music.
D) Repetitive exposure to music is known to damage a person's hearing.
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Q97: Because you can easily think of examples
Q98: After you cough a few times,you suddenly
Q99: The "confirmation bias" is the tendency to do what?
A)Express too much confidence in your answers on difficult questions.
B)Do something you won't enjoy, just because you already paid for it.
C)Look for evidence to support your current belief
D)Answer a question differently, depending on how someone phrases it.
Q100: Because you can easily remember times when
Q101: The "framing effect" is the tendency to do what?
A)To overestimate the accuracy of your answers to difficult questions
B)To answer a question differently when it is phrased differently
C)To overlook base-rate information
D)To think of an object only in terms of the most common way of using it
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
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