When a person responds to a survey question with the first acceptable answer that comes to mind, even if it isn't the best answer, this is called
a. optimizing
b. satisficing.
c. acquiescence.
d. impression management.
Question 2
Recent analysis of the work of Samuel George Morton's nineteenth century research on skull sizes and intelligence has indicated that
a. he overestimated the intelligence of all the groups he studied.
b. he underestimated the intelligence of all the groups he studied.
c. his methodology was so flawed that measurements of brain size were completely invalid.
d. his research did not have the flaws that Stephen Jay Gould claimed it had.