1 .		After tossing a coin 10 times and getting 10 heads, Ricky was asked, "What are the odds that you'll get tails on the next toss?" Instead of answering "50%," Ricky overestimated the odds. This is an example of [Hint]
2 .		Determining if a specific conclusion is valid based on given premises is termed [Hint]
3 .		Research imaging the brains of persons who are solving syllogisms has revealed that syllogisms are primarily a ________ hemisphere activity, and that it is a ________ demanding task than are relational reasoning tasks. [Hint]
4 .		Given the following premises and conclusion: If someone is a fireman, then he is tall. Owen is tall. Therefore, Owen is a fireman. Which of the following statements denies the consequent: [Hint]
5 .		Given a conditional (if-then reasoning) statement, what two arguments are INVALID? [Hint]
6 .		For the Wason Selection Task, "If a card has a vowel, then it must have an even number on the opposite side," participants are presented with E, J, 7, and 6 cards. Affirming the antecedent and denying the consequent should lead one to turn over the [Hint]
7 .		For the Wason Selection Task --- "If vowel, then even number" --- when people attempt to affirm the statement by turning over the "6" card, they are demonstrating [Hint]
8 .		When Snyder and Swann (1978) had participants interview others in order to assess whether they were introverts or extroverts, they found that the participants [Hint]
9 .		Most people feel safer going for a drive in a car than they do getting on an airplane, even though planes are statistically safer than cars. The reason for the misperception is that plane crashes receive more publicity. So, images of plane crashes come more readily to memory than do images of car crashes. This is an example of the [Hint]
10 .		"Why are you turning back?" asked Paula. "I forgot something," answered Terry. "Don't go back," said Paula. "Every time I've gone back, something bad happened." Paula's superstitious reaction is likely the result of [Hint]
11 .		Tim knows that there are many more teachers and secretaries in his hometown than there are librarians. Yet, after meeting Lila, an unmarried, serious, conservatively dressed woman with hair in a bun, who was on her way to work, he was ready to bet that she was a librarian. Tim's judgment relied on [Hint]
12 .		Which of the following contributes to the representativeness heuristic: [Hint]
13 .		Racial profiling by highway police is likely the product of which of the following: [Hint]
14 .		The tendency to believe that a person is more likely to be a professor who is also an author, rather than a professor is termed the [Hint]
15 .		Which of these four individuals appears to be guilty of the gambler's fallacy: [Hint]
16 .		Chapman and Bornstein (1996) investigated the anchoring and adjustment heuristic in the context of personal injury awards. Participants read a simulated summary of a plaintiff's case in a suit alleging that birth-control pills caused ovarian cancer. The independent variable was the amount of money that the woman was suing for; it varied from $100 to $1,000,000,000. The participants were asked to decide compensatory damages and the likelihood that the defendant caused the injury. What did the researchers conclude? [Hint]
17 .		"I knew they would lose the game," said Jeremy when the soccer game ended with a score of 2 to 0, with his school team losing. In fact, the night before, Jeremy had been saying that he was sure that his school team would win. Jeremy is exhibiting [Hint]
18 .		When it comes to the relationship between confidence and knowledge, [Hint]
19 .		According to the theory of expected utility, decisions are based on two factors, [Hint]
20 .		Expected utility provides a normative description of decision-making. Accordingly, that is the way that [Hint]
21 .		The preference reversal phenomenon demonstrates the violation of which prerequisite of the expected utility model of decision making? [Hint]
22 .		According to the prospect theory model of decision making, [Hint]
23 .		Jody answered "Yes" to the survey question, "Should women have a right to choose when it comes to their own bodies?" On the next page, she answered "Yes" to the question, "Does a fetus have a right to life?" The fact that Jody agreed to two contradictory questions can be attributed to [Hint]
24 .		When people are required to make choices, and alternatives are presented in a "gain-frame," people tend to be ________. When alternatives are presented in a "loss-frame," people tend to be ________. [Hint]
25 .		The sunk-cost effect is demonstrated in which of the following scenarios: [Hint]
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