Author Question: Suppose that you are watching television just after a Congressional election, and your favorite ... (Read 53 times)

bb · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that you are watching television just after a Congressional election, and your favorite candidate has wonalthough the election was close. You say to a friend, Well, I was really quite confident that he would win. This might be an exam

a. a conjunction fallacy.
b. the framing effect.
c. the hindsight bias.
d. the representativeness heuristic.

Question 2

Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about the research on overconfidence?

a. Solange: Overconfidence applies to many other cognitive tasks, in addition to decision making.
b. Igor: The research on overconfidence shows that participants are consistently overconfident, no matter what kind of questions they are asked.
c. Steve: Individual differences are surprisingly small in this area; both experts and novices show similar levels of overconfidence.
d. Amber: The overconfidence effect can be traced to illusory correlations.