According to Psych for Your Life: Using Learning Principles to Improve

question 96

Multiple Choice

According to Psych for Your Life: Using Learning Principles to Improve Self-Control, as the availability of a reinforcer draws closer, its subjective value:

• A)increases.
• B)decreases.
• C)remains constant.
• D)cannot be predicted.

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Definitions:

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are shared by others.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, values, opinions, and habits are normal and typical of those of others.

Pro-Choice Attitudes

Views or beliefs that support the right of individuals to make autonomous decisions about their own reproductive health, including the option of having an abortion.

Attitudes

An individual’s opinions and beliefs about people, objects, and ideas—how the person feels about the world.