Julio Has Been Told, "If Your Name Appears on the List

question 50

Multiple Choice

Julio has been told, "If your name appears on the list outside Dr. Forest's office, you'll be in the psychology honors class next semester." Julio's name does indeed appear on the list. Julio concludes that he will be in the psychology honors class next semester. Julio is using

• A) conditional reasoning.
• B) the framing effect.
• C) decision making.
• D) hindsight bias

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Definitions:

Decentration

A cognitive ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation rather than focusing on just one.

Conservation

The principle that physical properties of objects, such as volume and mass, remain constant despite changes in their form or appearance.

Seriation

The cognitive ability to organize objects or items in a logical order, such as by size, number, or volume, essential in early childhood development.

Transitivity

In mathematics and logic, transitivity is a property of binary relations that if an element A is related to B, and B is related to C, then A is also related to C.