Author Question: Maria is the victim of an armed robbery. She is called into the police station to identify her ... (Read 78 times)

jasdeep_brar · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Maria is the victim of an armed robbery. She is called into the police station to identify her assailant from a line-up of men. She correctly reports that none of the men were her attacker. This illustrates the concept of a(n) ____.

a. non-choice
b. elimination
c. correct rejection
d. accurate refusal

Question 2

Saul is a cytotechnologist in training. He is asked to screen a series of tissue samples for precancerous cells. His supervisor checks his work and determines that Saul greatly overestimated the number of samples containing precancerous cells. This may be due to the fact that Saul lost his mother to cancer early in life, and is extra cautious about missing indications of cancerous cells in the samples. This illustrates ____.

a. false alarms
b. sham hits
c. loss aversion
d. erroneous judgment