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Purdue PSY 200 Exam 4 with verified detailed answers || || || || || || || ||
1. What should you do when you're on Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall and he shows you a
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goat door after you choose Door 1?
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a. Stay with Door 1
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b. Switch to Door 3
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c. Stay with Door 2
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d. Switch to Door 1 - ✔✔b. Switch to Door 3
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2. What produces expertise?
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a. natural skill plus deliberate practice
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b. prosodic cues
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c. context
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d. heuristics - ✔✔a. natural skill plus deliberate practice
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3. Landon reads a story problem that asks him which is more likely: 1) Karen is Caucasian or 2)
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Karen is Caucasian and makes bland potato salad. Landon says that the second is more likely.
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What heuristic is he using?
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a. affect
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b. representative
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c. availability
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d. conjunction fallacy - ✔✔d. conjunction fallacy
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4. Which model explains why Jace would risk opening his own business over the
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safer option of working for someone else?
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a. utility theory
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b. support theory
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c. prospect theory
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d. frequency theory - ✔✔c. prospect theory
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5. What model of parsing combines the best parts of two other models?
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a. predication model
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b. constraint-based model
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c. garden path model
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d. unrestricted race model - ✔✔d. unrestricted race model
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6. Foxx construction has already invested $1,000,000 in developing a new rooftop community
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garden when they find out they're 4 months behind schedule. They decide to invest the additional
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$500,000 to get back on schedule. What effect is Foxx construction experiencing?
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a. sunk cost
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b. framing
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c. hiatus
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d. representativeness - ✔✔a. sunk cost
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7. In which theory of problem solving do we re-imagine what is possible, look at the
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problem another way, and add new problem information?
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a. egocentric
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b. prospect
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c. analog
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d. representational change - ✔✔d. representational change
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8. What does the N400 event-related potential wave tell us about language
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comprehension?
a. how a person understands word sounds
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b. how a person understands what a word looks like
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Purdue PSY 200 Exam 4 with verified detailed answers || || || || || || || ||
1. What should you do when you're on Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall and he shows you a
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goat door after you choose Door 1?
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a. Stay with Door 1
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b. Switch to Door 3
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c. Stay with Door 2
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d. Switch to Door 1 - ✔✔b. Switch to Door 3
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2. What produces expertise?
|| || ||
a. natural skill plus deliberate practice
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b. prosodic cues
|| ||
c. context
||
d. heuristics - ✔✔a. natural skill plus deliberate practice
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3. Landon reads a story problem that asks him which is more likely: 1) Karen is Caucasian or 2)
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Karen is Caucasian and makes bland potato salad. Landon says that the second is more likely.
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What heuristic is he using?
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a. affect
||
b. representative
||
c. availability
||
d. conjunction fallacy - ✔✔d. conjunction fallacy
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4. Which model explains why Jace would risk opening his own business over the
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safer option of working for someone else?
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a. utility theory
|| ||
b. support theory
|| ||
, 2
c. prospect theory
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d. frequency theory - ✔✔c. prospect theory
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5. What model of parsing combines the best parts of two other models?
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a. predication model
|| ||
b. constraint-based model
|| ||
c. garden path model
|| || ||
d. unrestricted race model - ✔✔d. unrestricted race model
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6. Foxx construction has already invested $1,000,000 in developing a new rooftop community
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garden when they find out they're 4 months behind schedule. They decide to invest the additional
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
$500,000 to get back on schedule. What effect is Foxx construction experiencing?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
a. sunk cost
|| ||
b. framing
||
c. hiatus
||
d. representativeness - ✔✔a. sunk cost
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7. In which theory of problem solving do we re-imagine what is possible, look at the
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problem another way, and add new problem information?
|| || || || || || ||
a. egocentric
||
b. prospect
||
c. analog
||
d. representational change - ✔✔d. representational change
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8. What does the N400 event-related potential wave tell us about language
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comprehension?
a. how a person understands word sounds
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b. how a person understands what a word looks like
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