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A friend tells you that drama majors tend to be extremely disorganized. However, when you actually make a tally of 10 friends who are drama majors and 20 friends who are not, you find no relationship. Your friend's error was most likely to be an example o
 
  a. the hindsight bias.
  b. an illusory correlation.
  c. the framing effect.
  d. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.

Question 2

A professor asks students to guess what percent of people in homeless shelters are parents and children. Before you can consider your answer, another student shouts out about 10.
 
  Your answer may be either higher or lower than it would be otherwise because of
   a. the belief-bias effect.
   b. the confirmation bias.
   c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
   d. the hindsight bias.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: c




fagboi

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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:D TYSM

 

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