Author Question: Suppose that a student named John is asked to judge how many students are enrolled in his ... (Read 65 times)

09madisonrousseau09 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that a student named John is asked to judge how many students are enrolled in his introductory biology class. He replies, about 100....well, maybe between about 90 and 110. Based on the discussion of confidence intervals, you predict that

a. John's estimate probably relies too heavily on the ease with which examples come to mind.
b. John is likely to be heavily influenced by the confirmation bias.
c. John probably relied too heavily on the initial anchor of 100 students.
d. John probably would have been wiser to use the representativeness heuristic to estimate the confidence intervals.

Question 2

According to the framing effect,

a. under some circumstances, the framework of a question encourages too much reliance on the representativeness heuristic.
b. when people make decisions, the deep structureor frameis more important than the surface structure.
c. decision-makers show a clear-cut tendency to assume that the same frame holds true for all the decisions in a particular set.
d. the way in which a question is asked has an important influence on people's decisions.