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You and a friend are discussing autism and you are sharing what you learned in your abnormal psychology class about the causes of autism. You state that research does not support any sort of causal link between autism and vaccination. Your friend immediately counters that her nephew was a wonderful, perfectly-developing child until, as a toddler, he got a number of vaccines at a single visit to the pediatrician. Your friend is countering the research using ____.
 
  a. representativeness
 b. availability
 c. adjustment-from-an-anchor
  d. categorical

Question 2

In ____, we judge the probability of an uncertain event according to how obviously it is similar to the population from which it is derived; and the degree to which it reflects the salient features of the process by which it is generated.
 
  a. representativeness
 b. availability
 c. adjustment-from-an-anchor
  d. categorical



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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