You Attend a Party Where You Do Not Know Anyone

question 66

Multiple Choice

You attend a party where you do not know anyone but expect that people will be friendly. You meet people warmly and in a sociable manner. Your actions, in turn, lead to other people being friendly to you. This situation can best be described as

• A) the illusory correlation.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) the availability heuristic.
• D) behavioral confirmation.

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Definitions:

Temperatures

Measures of the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment, typically expressed in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Olfactory Bulbs

Two bulb-like projections of the brain located just above the sinus cavity and just below the frontal lobes that receive information from the olfactory receptor cells.

Olfactory Epithelium

The specialized epithelial tissue within the nasal cavity that is involved in smell, housing the sensory receptors for detecting odorants.

Axons

Long, slender projections of nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands.