Snyder and His Colleagues Found That They Could Get Interviewers

question 26

Multiple Choice

Snyder and his colleagues found that they could get interviewers to search for behaviours that would disconfirm the trait they were testing for by

• A) telling them that it was relevant and informative to find out ways in which the person might not be like the stereotype.
• B) promising $25 to the interviewer who developed the set of questions that told the most about the interviewee.
• C) Both of these choices resulted in interviewers overcoming their confirmation bias.
• D) None of these choices worked in overcoming the confirmation bias of the interviewers.

Understand the evolutionary perspective on human reasoning and its adaptiveness to natural problems.

Understand and describe the concept of "manual babbling" in deaf babies as compared to verbal babbling in hearing babies.

Recognize how cognitive psychology relates thought processes to solving real-world problems.

Explain attitudes towards risk and decision-making based on framing effects as studied by Kahneman and Tversky.

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