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Chapter 10 psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Virtually all the_____ and _____ that have been uncovered by science of psychology are stated in terms of_____. There is nothing unique about this. Many of the________ and ______ in other sciences are stated in terms of _______ rather than ________ | facts/ relationships/ probabilities/ laws/ relationships/ probabilities/ certainties |
| If people think a single example can ______ a law, they must feel the law should hold in_____ case. In short, they have_____ to _____the law’s probabilistic nature. There wil_____ be a “_____who” goes against even the strongest of trends. | invalidate/ every/failed /understand/ always/ person |
| Psychologists call instances like “old Joe Ferguson” story examples of the use of _______-_____” statistics: situations in which well-established statistical trends are _____ because someone knows a “person who” went against the ________________ | person who / questioned/ trend |
| The ubiquitous “person who” is usually trotted out when we are _______________________ with hard statistical _______________________ that _______________________ a previously held belief | confronted/ evidence/ contradicts |
| Much research into the nature of _______________________ _______________________ has indicated that probabilistic _______________________ may well be the _______________________ heel of human cognition | human/ thinking/ archilles |
| These two problems illustrate a very useful principle concerning _______________________ _______________________: Smaller samples will always generate more _______________________ val | sample-size/ extreme/ reasoning |
| Rural counties with sparse populations are _______________________ samples, and they are bound to produce more _______________________ values of all types – extremely _______________________ values and extremely _______________________ value | small/ extreme/ high./low |
| These two problems probe whether a person is prone to the so-called gambler’s_______ -- the tendency for people to see_____ between events in the ___________ and events in the ______ when the two are really ________ | fallacy/ links/past/future/independent |
| It is important to realize that the _______________________ fallacy is not restricted to games of _______________________. It operates in _______________________domain in which chance plays a substantial role, that is, in almost ______ | gamblers/chance/any/everything |
| Those who claim to have psychic _______________________can easily _______________________ this tendency. | power's/exploit |
| Truly _______________________ sequences will often _______________________ seem _______________________ to people because of our tendency to see _______________________ everywhere | random/not/random/patterns |
| Unlike some of the other components of scientific _______________________that are more easily acquired, functional reasoning skills in _______________________ probably requires some type of _______________________ study | thinking/statistics/ formal |
| No one can be a _______________________ contemporary psychologist without being fully conversant with _______________________ and ____________ | competent/ statistics/probability |
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