Jana Wants to Know If People Are More Likely to Judge

question 86

Multiple Choice

Jana wants to know if people are more likely to judge someone else as being trustworthy if they are told to stand with their arms open wide than if they are standing with their arms crossed.She thinks that this will prime participants' schemas for openness or being closed off such that people primed with openness will be emotionally open to trust others.Jana is studying

• A) the representativeness heuristic.
• B) embodied cognition.
• C) the availability heuristic.
• D) holistic and analytic thinking styles.
• E) controlled social cognition.

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Cognitive Tasks

Activities that require the use of mental processes to complete, such as problem-solving, memory, and perception.

Meta-Analysis

A statistical technique for combining the findings from independent studies to identify patterns and derive conclusions.

Hyde and Linn

Researchers known for their work on gender differences in cognition, particularly in the context of mathematical and spatial abilities.

Meta-Analysis

a statistical procedure that integrates the results of multiple studies on a particular topic to derive a more comprehensive understanding of that topic.