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Isabella goes to a fortune teller who tells her, You are the type of person who is very outgoing and sociable, yet at times you enjoy being alone.
 
  Isabella thinks this captures her personality amazingly well, because she finds many instances in her memories of such behaviors. Isabella has just fallen prey to the
   a. base rate heuristic.
   b. priming effect.
   c. Barnum effect.
   d. self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 2

The Barnum effect, in which vague statements about one's future or personality may be seen as accurate and valid, occurs because of the
 
  a. self-fulfilling prophecies it creates.
  b. representativeness heuristic.
  c. base rate information it relies on.
  d. principle of the sucker effect.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


misspop

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!

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