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JGIBBSON

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Recall the words of Dr. Robert Marion, who was the first physician to correctly diagnose a nine-year-old girl with a rare disease: Doctors are just like everyone else. We go to the movies, watch TV, read newspapers and novels.
 
  If we happen to see a patient who has symptoms of a rare disease that was featured on the previous night's Movie of the Week,' we're more likely to consider that condition when making a diagnosis. In essence, Dr. Marion is describing the ________ heuristic.
   a. representativeness
   b. availability
   c. primacy
   d. counterfactual

Question 2

In the research presented in the text, people were asked to think about how assertive they were and provide a number of examples. The independent variable of this research was
 
  a. how assertive they rated themselves.
  b. how many examples they had to provide.
  c. how quickly they provided examples.
  d. how many people were in the experiment.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B




JGIBBSON

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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