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cagreen833

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When asked to guess whether Mark is from Montana or California, you guess California because more people live in California. You have used ________ in making your decision.
 
  a. the representativeness heuristic
  b. base rate information
  c. the availability heuristic
  d. counterfactual thinking

Question 2

If accurate judgments are our goal, we should use base rate information instead of the representativeness heuristic when
 
  a. we lack specific information about the person.
  b. base rates are high in the sample.
  c. base rates are low in the sample.
  d. the decision is a complicated one.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A




cagreen833

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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