We tend to demonstrate an unrealistic _____________ about future life events.

The nurse is assessing a client who reports tingling and numbness in the thumb, index, and middle fingers. Which test should the nurse perform to confirm the likelihood of carpal tunnel syndrome?

When we judge something by intuitively comparing it to our mental representation of a category, we are using the _______________________.

Your psychology professor has assigned group projects to your class. She has chosen to individually grade each student’s contribution to the assignment as an attempt to reduce

Pets help people cope with stress because they ________.

An important lesson recent social psychology teaches is that we are as likely not only to __________________ ourselves into a way of acting but also to ___________ our way into a way of ______________.

Few findings have been more consistent than those that show that ____ people are helpful people.

The process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors.

All things being equal, information presented first usually has the most influence.

The _________________bias is the tendency to exaggerate one’s ability to have foreseen how something turned out after learning the outcome.