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cnetterville

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Iain is from Australia, where people drive on the left-hand side of the road. When he moved to the United States, his accident rate was higher than any of his friends'. Why might this be?
 
  a. They don't have drivers' education courses in Australia.
  b. Iain had no schema for driving behaviors.
  c. There is no speed limit in Australia.
  d. Driving schemas differ between the United States and Australia.

Question 2

You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you.
 
  If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) ________ student because ________.
   a. graduate; she's older
   b. undergraduate; you have a bias to expect undergraduates in your courses
   c. graduate; she fits your schema for graduate students
   d. undergraduate; there are more of them enrolled in the class



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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