Suppose that you have always prepared a family recipe for me…

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

An experimental task required participants to quickly give e…

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?