Because Schemas Have Been Shown to Influence ________,Participants Who Are

question 52

Multiple Choice

Because schemas have been shown to influence ________,participants who are told to watch a video of a basketball game and count the number of times people in white shirts pass the ball might completely miss seeing a person in a black gorilla suit walk through the game.

• A) behaviors
• B) attention
• C) bottom-up processes
• D) priming

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Definitions:

Voting Power

The right or authority to vote, often related to the number of votes someone controls in the decision-making process of an organization.

Dividends

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Strike Suit

In corporation law, a derivative suit motivated primarily by an intent to gain an out-of-court settlement for the suing shareholder personally or to earn large attorney’s fees for lawyers, rather than to obtain a recovery for the corporation.

Derivative Action

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