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Jennifer was walking along the street when she saw a man run out of a convenience store clutching on to a bag. The owner of the store runs out and shouts for the man to stop and come back.
 
  Jennifer immediately assumes that there has been a robbery, not that the man was in a hurry and forgot his change. How did she fill in this gap in her knowledge of the situation?
   a. She was using the base rate heuristic.
   b. She considered self-fulfilling prophecies.
   c. She was using racial profiling.
   d. She was relying on a schema.

Question 2

Which of the following does not describe a schema?
 
  a. organizes the social world
  b. fills in the gaps of the social world
  c. makes sense of the social world
  d. increases the accessibility of a trait



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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