A commercial keeps coming on that says Degree deodorant is the most reliable for reducing sweat. Although the first time we see the commercial, we know that isn’t true, we start to believe it anyway after a while because we’ve heard it repeated so many times. This is an example of what effect?

________is the tendency to make judgments about group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one’s stereotype of a group rather than on available base rate information.

Brain plasticity refers to the brain’s capacity to:

An intrinsically motivated individual is most likely to be motivated by

In the context of loss aversion, identify a true statement about sunk-cost fallacy.

________refers to a limited-capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for only as long as 30 seconds unless strategies are used to retain it longer.

________is a consequence that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur.

The anchoring effect happens when:

The tendency to ignore information about base rates in favor of very specific but vivid information is known as

Which of the following statements is true about the polygraph or lie detector?