Assignment 6

PSY 100

Read the article Unit bias: A new heuristic that helps explain the effect of portion size on food intake. After the authors described the results of their studies, and suggested a possible explanation for the results, the authors described some possible alternative explanations for the results they found. List one of the alternative explanations the authors presented.

Describe one possible alternative explanation not mentioned in the article for any of the results.

Briefly describe how you might modify one of the experiments in the article to test your alternative explanation.