Professor Chadwick evaluated a graduate students research proposal negatively simply because he had heard a rumor about the students incompetence. When later informed that the rumor had been false, the professors assessment of the students research proposal remained almost as negative as it had been originally. This best illustrates

MEMORY AND EMOTION

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Professor Chadwick evaluated a graduate student’s research proposal negatively simply because he had heard a rumor about the student’s incompetence. When later informed that the rumor had been false, the professor’s assessment of the student’s research proposal remained almost as negative as it had been originally. This best illustrates

A	belief perseverance
B	the representativeness heuristic
C	the availability heuristic
D	framing

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky developed the language acquisition theory in order to explain this phenomenon. According to Chomsky, the ability to learn languages is an innate skill. Children are born with a language learning tool that he called a language acquisition device.

Detailed explanation-2: -The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to: judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype.

Detailed explanation-3: -Using different words for two very similar objects enables people to recognize conceptual distinctions between the objects. This best illustrates: telegraphic speech.

Detailed explanation-4: -Prototypes are especially important in the process of: classifying objects.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

MEMORY AND EMOTION