Author Question: If people are told that turkeys are susceptible to disease A, they aren't really that likely to ... (Read 82 times)

mp14 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

If people are told that turkeys are susceptible to disease A, they aren't really that likely to believe that all birds are susceptible to disease A.

However, if they are told that robins are susceptible to disease A, they are likely to believe that all birds are susceptible. This is called a ________, and is an instance of _______ reasoning.
a) diversity effect; deductive
b) diversity effect; inductive
c) typicality effect; deductive
d) typicality effect; inductive

Question 2

People often fail to choose correctly on the Watson Selection Task because they resist:

a) affirming the antecedent.
b) confirmatory evidence.
c) disconfirmatory evidence.
d) affirming the consequent.