PSY CHPT 9 – Flashcards

Brainstorming sessions that encourage people to spontaneously suggest new and unusual solutions to a problem are designed to avoid

Our intuitions are feelings and thoughts that are best described as

U.S. employees who formerly wanted to defer part of their compensation to a 401(k) retirement plan typically had to lower their take-home pay as they "opted in" to the plan. Now companies are being encouraged to enroll their employees in the 401(k) plan automatically while allowing them to choose to raise their take-home pay by "opting-out" of the 401(k) plan. Under the "opting out" rather than "opt-in" system, enrollments in 401(k) plans soared. This best illustrates the impact of

An effort to "consider the opposite" would be most likely to inhibit

When someone mentions hamburgers, Trisha immediately thinks of McDonald's. In this instance, McDonald's is a

Noam Chomsky argues that children's readiness to learn language is a

he part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as

After learning that her two best friends had lost their jobs, Mariah began to grossly overestimate the national unemployment rate. Mariah's reaction best illustrates the consequences of

In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

Those who learn sign language as teens never become as fluent as children exposed to sign language from birth. This best illustrates the importance of ________ for mastering language.