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ericka1

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A study by Gigerenzer and Hoffrege (1995) showed that more Germans than not accurately picked San Diego as having more people than San Antonio because they had heard of it before (all the way in Germany).
 
  This accuracy was due to the _______ heuristic.
   a) availability
   b) representativeness
   c) familiarity
   d) recognition

Question 2

People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments.
 
  For example, they assume anyone over 6'6 must have played a lot of basketball, even thought the majority of individuals have not played much basketball. This is a prime example of:
   a) regression to the mean.
   b) the availability heuristic.
   c) the representativeness heuristic.
   d) anchoring and adjustment.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c



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