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tingc95

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According to the authors of your text, people are likely to quickly categorize people they have just met. This is due to people's reliance on
 
  a. self-fulfilling prophecies.
  b. counterfactual thinking.
  c. controlled thinking
  d. schemas.

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Korsakov's syndrome is a neurological disorder that makes sufferers unable to form new memories.
 
  The world is disorienting and incoherent to patients with this disorder, so they often confabulate and invent fictions to make the world less scary and confusing. A social psychologist might say that these patients
   a. invent schemas where none exist.
   b. have lost their schemas.
   c. can only use controlled but not automatic processes.
   d. are not concerned with reducing ambiguity.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A




tingc95

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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