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The authors of your text report that a college professor asked students to list either two or ten ways to improve the course. Because students used the availability heuristic, which group of students gave the professor the highest course ratings overall?
 
  a. They were actually the same.
  b. the students who were asked to list ten improvements
  c. the students who were asked to list two improvements
  d. the students who skipped listing any improvements

Question 2

When people use information about the relative frequency of members of different categories in the population to make judgments (e.g., percentage of students who are psychology majors), they are using
 
  a. the representativeness heuristic.
  b. the availability heuristic.
  c. census data.
  d. base rate information.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D




mcmcdaniel

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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