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Question 1

What cognitive bias describes the human tendency to seek out, favor, and recall information that confirms preexisting beliefs?

Question 2

What Russian physiologist discovered classical conditioning in the 1890s by training dogs to salivate to auditory tones associated with meat powder?

Question 3

What cognitive bias causes people with low competence in a given task to overestimate their ability, while experts underestimate theirs?

Question 4

What social psychological phenomenon occurs when the presence of other people discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency?

Question 5

What famous 1961 Yale University experiment tested how far ordinary people would obey an authority figure demanding they administer electric shocks?

Question 6

What 1956 paper by cognitive psychologist George A. Miller established the magical number 7 (plus or minus 2) for working memory?

Question 7

What optical illusion demonstrated by Solomon Asch in 1951 tested social conformity by having confederates unanimously pick incorrect line lengths?

Question 8

What psychological term describes the mental discomfort experienced by someone who holds contradictory beliefs, values, or ideas simultaneously?

Question 9

What cognitive phenomenon describes how human attention focuses on a single task so intensely that obvious unexpected stimuli go unnoticed?

Question 10

What behavioral principle states that physiological arousal enhances task performance up to an optimal level, after which excess stress impairs it?

What cognitive bias describes the human tendency to seek out, favor, and recall information that confirms preexisting beliefs?