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mspears3

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Which of the following students provides the most accurate perspective on the availability heuristic?
 
  a. Barbara: The availability heuristic is actually very accurate, and it almost always leads us to the correct decision.
  b. Harley: The availability heuristic is generally accurate, but recency and familiarity can distort our decisions.
  c. Angela: The availability heuristic is generally accurate, except that we should be cautious about the recognition heuristic, which is not very accurate.
  d. Magda: Unfortunately, the availability heuristic is the least accurate of the three major heuristics, especially because of the hindsight bias.

Question 2

How could the illusory-correlation effect produce a stereotype?
 
  a. People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype.
  b. People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people.
  c. People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics, and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics.
  d. People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor, and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

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Ans: c





 

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