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.
Lynx-hare interactions have served as a model system for the study of the effects o
Model of a sequential study in which two cohorts were followed beginning at age 20. One cohort was f
Skin lifting. Superficial tissues are picked up and gently pulled away from deeper tissues.
These findings are from Colby and Kohlberg's long-term longitudinal study
The reason why I do not study
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