Suppose that you have always prepared a family recipe for meatballs by adding ingredients in a specific order.   You are given a fancy, new food processor and find it would work well to mix the ingredients in the recipe.  However, while it is far more efficient to mix the ingredients in a different order with the food processor, you continue to mix them in the same order you always did. You are exhibiting the phenomenon of

Changing how a decision is described can cause us to change how we think about the facts that we have been given, leading to illogical preferences. This phenomenon is referred to as

An experimental task required participants to quickly give estimates of a product of a sequence of numbers. The first group was presented with the following sequence: 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 =? The second group was presented with the following sequence: 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 =? Which statement best describes the results obtained from this experiment?

A “rule of thumb” that defines a strategy that is useful in problem solution but does not guarantee a solution is called a(n)

Which of the following is the best example of a well-defined problem?

The doctrine of sovereign immunity prohibits law suits against the government unless the government consents.  

In Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company, the court held 

When writing a research paper, you might decide to paraphrase a source when

Which statement below best exemplifies a conjunction fallacy?

You’re sitting on a jury trying to determine whether the defendant is guilty of the crime he is accused of, which is kidnapping an adult for no ransom. You think “I can understand if someone abducted a child for a ransom, and he looks like someone who would do that, but I don’t see him as being guilty for kidnapping an adult and not demanding anything.” You catch yourself and realize that you are applying which heuristic that is leading to a bias?