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Cynthia has developed an informal hypothesis: If a student is a psychology major, then that student favors gun control. She questions 20 psychology majors and all 20 do favor gun control. However, she does not pursue additional information.
 
  Specifically, she does not seek out people who oppose gun control, to determine whether they are psychology majors. From the perspective of deductive reasoning, Cynthia has
   a. demonstrated confirmation bias.
   b. relied too heavily on the belief-bias effect.
   c. relied too heavily on counterexamples.
   d. overused the availability heuristic.

Question 2

According to the discussion in Chapter 12, the belief-bias effect
 
  a. is an example of overreliance on bottom-up processing.
  b. is likely to operate for people who have difficulty thinking flexibly.
  c. reveals that people provide irrational answers on logical reasoning tasks.
  d. arises from the general human tendency to answer true, rather than false.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

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Ans: b





 

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