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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