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maegan_martin

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In your book's example, you read a list of names and then tried to recall how many started with J; if you tended to overestimate the number of J names, it was probably due to the effects of _______ on the use of the _______ heuristic.
 
  a) frequency; availability
   b) familiarity; availability
   c) stereotyping; representativeness
   d) salience; representativeness

Question 2

When we make judgments, we often have to do so in the absence of information or computational skill. Because of this, we must often rely on:
 
  a) problem space.
   b) algorithms.
   c) heuristics.
   d) premises.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c




maegan_martin

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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