Author Question: Bill's wife informs him that they will be attending the opera. Bill has never been to the opera, but ... (Read 45 times)

go.lag · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Bill's wife informs him that they will be attending the opera. Bill has never been to the opera, but he immediately has a mental image of he and his wife sitting in an ornate theater and wearing formal eveningwear.

Bill is drawing up a(n) ________. a) schema
b) heuristic
c) anchor
d) cognitive load

Question 2

Some people feel that certain groups of people have some underlying, biologically-based features that distinguish that group from other groups. These supposed distinguishing features are known as ________.

a) traits
b) essences
c) stereotypes
d) genes