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Question 14 ptsMatch each cognitive bias below with the best example of it.Group of answer choicesI expect that I will score “under par” my first time playing golf.
[ Choose ] overconfidence framing availability heuristic anchoring I believe I’ll win at a game because I recall the one time I won. [ Choose ] overconfidence framing availability heuristic anchoring My first experience with dating went poorly, and so I expect all dates will be bad. [ Choose ] overconfidence framing availability heuristic anchoring A tax-free discount sounds better to me than a 5% discount, even though it is the same amount. [ Choose ] overconfidence framing availability heuristic anchoring Flag question: Question 2Question 22 ptsResearch indicates that the level of a person’s _____________________ may be less important than the level of _______________________ involved in learning.Group of answer choicesmotivation; encodingrepetition; massingencoding; motivationmassing; repetitionFlag question: Question 3Question 31 ptsWhich of the following describes a situation where a person goes beyond available evidence to form a conclusion that is likely to be true? For example, Romeo might infer from his smart older sister that when she said, “I finished the test” that

meant that she passed the test.Group of answer choicesengaging in incorrect encodingsuccumbing to social influencemaking a pragmatic inferencehaving selective attentionFlag question: Question 4Question 41 ptsCues that work best to evoke retrieval are those that recreate the event or name to be remembered and sometimes the target itself. However, sometimes these cues do not work and people are unsuccessful in identifying the correct answer. For example, if I am trying to cue someone to think of their home-phone, I might give the cue “phone”. However, this could also prompt the individual to recall words like work-phone or cell-phone, thus failing to recall home-phone. Which phenomenon describes this failure?Group of answer choicesmisinformation of cuesfalse consolidation processesrecognition failure of recallable wordsfalse storage of informationFlag question: Question 5Question 52 ptsDiscussion Question of your choice! Of the 6 Discussion Questions included at the end of the Required Reading chapters, choose one question and and provide your own, original answer in at least TWO complete sentences below. Please be specific and provide EXAMPLES to illustrate your response.Please begin by specifying (copy/paste) which question you are answering.