A study by Gigerenzer and Hoffrege (1995) showed that more Germans than not accurately picked San Diego as having more people than San Antonio because they had heard of it before (all the way in Germany).
This accuracy was due to the _______ heuristic.
a) availability
b) representativeness
c) familiarity
d) recognition
Question 2
People tend to ignore the base rate of some occurrence in the population in making their judgments.
For example, they assume anyone over 6'6 must have played a lot of basketball, even thought the majority of individuals have not played much basketball. This is a prime example of:
a) regression to the mean.
b) the availability heuristic.
c) the representativeness heuristic.
d) anchoring and adjustment.
Palade's use of the pulse-chase method to study protein secretion
Results of the study by Laruelle et al. (1996)
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Human Proportion: The Vitruvian Man.
Performing a Correlational Study
Circular two-handed petrissage. Tissues are picked up between the hands as they pass each other.
Barenboim's study show the change in children's descriptions of their peers