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Over Thanksgiving break, your parents ask you if you can think of 12 reasons why your college is better than its archrival. You find it hard to come up with so many reasons and so end up thinking, Hmm, maybe the schools aren't all that different.
 
  Which of the following mental strategies did you probably use to reach this conclusion?
  a. the representativeness heuristic
  b. base rate information
  c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
  d. the availability heuristic

Question 2

Which of the following is the best summary of research on automatic goal pursuit?
 
  a. People can only select which goals to work toward using controlled thinking.
  b. People often pursue goals that have been recently primed, without realizing that that is why they are pursuing the goal.
  c. People often pursue goals that have been recently primed, but only if they are consciously aware that the goal has been primed.
  d. People never choose their goals consciously; they only pursue automatically primed goals.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B




123654777

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent


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:D TYSM

 

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