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littleanan

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on: Jun 22, 2018
When Becky meets her new roommate, she sees that she has her hair dyed blue and has decorated her side of the room with lots of handmade ceramic pots and paintings. She then assumes that her roommate has multiple piercings and listens to punk rock.
 
  She has used the ________ heuristic in making this assumption.
   a. base rate
   b. availability
   c. representativeness
   d. anchoring and adjustment

Question 2

When people classify a stimulus based on how similar it appears to be to the typical case, they are using the ________ heuristic.
 
  a. availability
  b. exemplar
  c. correspondence
  d. representativeness


atrochim

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D


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