10. One recommendation for improving group decision-making is to have group members submit their private opinions before the meeting in which they will have to decide. Identify three biases in group decision-making that this intervention addresses. Explain how this intervention addresses each bias.

4. The readings for class 3 explored the effect of expectations on employees’ performance, as well as the effect of expectations on evaluations of employees’ performance. What is the psychological phenomenon by which positive expectations can improve actual performance in the workplace? What is the psychological phenomenon by which negative expectations can harm actual performance in the workplace? What is the psychological phenomenon by which expectations can influence evaluation of performance (either positively or negatively) without influencing actual performance?

12. Recently, Tara has been following a new diet plan that claims to help her lose weight quickly. She strongly believes this diet is effective. When she encounters a testimonial on a social media platform from a user who claims to have lost 20 pounds on the same diet, she immediately feels more confident in the diet’s effectiveness, significantly boosting her belief in the diet plan. Yet, when she reads a scientific study stating that the diet plan has a high dropout rate and only shows short-term results for a small percentage of people, she dismisses the study, thinking it doesn’t apply to her. Her belief in the diet’s long-term effectiveness barely changes. What is a single psychological principle of persuasion that could be at play here (i.e., why Tara was so readily persuaded by the social media post but unpersuaded by the scientific study)?

What part of the brain is the sound information processed? 

2. When reviewing class notes (for any class, not just this one), you’ve noticed that some information captured your attention when it was initially presented, but later on, you completely forgot about it. In contrast, some information that you thought you “remembered” was never presented, at least not exactly as you remembered it. What kind of information tends to capture people’s attention when presented, but will be hard to remember? What kind of information will people misremember, i.e., they will think it was there even though it was never presented?

Loss of dopamine production in the caudate nucleus is associated with

Which structure in the diagram is a multilayer membrane that adapts rapidly to high frequency vibrations, and pressure changes?

________ are sensory receptors located in blood vessels and visceral organs, whose signals are not usually consciously perceived.

Norepinephrine is always released by ________ ganglionic neurons and can bind to the following receptor ________.

One of the main differences between a somatic reflex and autonomic reflex is the type of effectors that are activated. The effectors in somatic reflexes are ________, while the effectors in autonomic reflexes are ________.