People drastically overestimate the # of deaths due to terrorism and underestimate the # of deaths due to objects falling out of planes. This is an example of:
What is availability heuristic?
100
In order to get sick, you need both a preexisting vulnerability and a stressor. This refers to the:
What is diathesis stress model?
100
Physics vs. psychology: which are babies better at?
What is physics?
100
These are the Big 5 personality dimensions
What is OCEAN?
100
Stereotyping is a function of these 2 basic processes
What is categorization & generalization?
200
How long people predicted it would take the finish the Big Dig and their senior thesis vs. how long it actually took is an example of:
What is optimism?
200
These are all feeling disorders.
What is GAD, panic disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD?
200
Babies are born into the world with these innate concepts:
What is category, number, space/time, causality?
200
Your specific abilities and middle abilities all tend to be correlated. Together, they form what we call:
What is general intelligence?
200
This refers to the phenomenon whereby people are likely to associate 2 rare events, such as being part of a minority and doing bad things.
What is illusory correlation?
300
Opting for 1 snickers today instead of 8 snickers in December is an example of:
What is temporal discounting?
300
This is a thought disorder
What is schizophrenia?
300
Young children are bad at the following psychological processes:
What is appearance-reality distinction, theory of mind (i.e., false beliefs task), egocentrism, conservation of quantity?
300
Twin studies and sibling studies of kids raised together and apart show that intelligence is a function of both ____ and ____.
What is genes, environment?
300
These are the 3 features of stereotypes:
What is inaccurate, misestimate variability, and automatic/unconscious?
400
In a purely rational world, we would discount ____, but in actuality, we discount _______
What is linearly; hyperbolically
400
These are the risk factors for schizophrenia
What is genetics, your mother getting the flu during her first trimester, living in the city, being born in winter?
400
Recall the video of the 3-year old who couldn't figure out how to lie to a monkey. This is a great example of what task?
What is false beliefs?
400
Unlike the data on race, this reliably predicts intelligence by shaping things like lead exposure and how many words are spoken to you as a child.
What is SES?
400
These are the 4 ways that stereotypes are perpetuated:
What is collecting data, interpreting data, creating data, denying data?
500
People are loss averse, and gaining a mug will give you only a LITTLE happiness but losing the same mug will give you a LOT of unhappiness. This can be explained by:
What is prospect theory or marginal thinking?
500
Over the course of schizophrenia, the disease starts with ___symptoms and ends with ____symptoms
What is positive, negative?
500
Recall the Yale undergrads who had to figure out where Sally would look for her violin (i.e., in a red vs. blue box after the room was rearranged). This is an example of:
What is curse of knowledge?
500
These are the 3 myths about genes and intelligence.
What is 1) genes that influence IQ are IQ genes; 2) genes are destiny, and 3) genes explain individual behavior?
500
Asian women do better on a math test when you ask them their ethnicity right beforehand but do worse when you ask them their gender. This is an example of: