Which one of the following illustrates an overgeneralization error? The concepts in question are italicized.
a. Abe knows what the words tall and short mean, but he doesn't realize that one is the opposite of the other.
b. Ben thinks that all animals have to have fur and four legs; therefore snakes, bumblebees, and people cannot possibly be animals.
c. Carolyn thinks that baby dolls are not real babies because they do not cry.
d. Donna thinks that whales and dolphins are kinds of fish, when they are actually mammals instead.
Question 2
Which one of the following behaviors would suggest to you that a person has encoded information at least partly as visual imagery?
a. Sasha can easily answer the question, How old are you?
b. Roger uses his hands to show the length of a fish he caught last week.
c. Marianne reads aloud a particularly descriptive paragraph from Moby Dick.
d. Jayden appears to be quite surprised to learn that a heavy metal object can float if it's hollow inside.
Operant conditioning, also known as trial-and-error learning.
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