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shofmannx20

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Research on the availability heuristic shows that
 
  a. when medical journals contain many articles about a particular disease, physicians are likely to believe that it is easily curable.
  b. estimates for a country's population are distorted by the frequency with which the country is mentioned in the news.
  c. more recent events tend to be given relatively little weight in making frequency estimates, compared with events that occurred long ago.
  d. people almost always select answers that are consistent with deductive reasoning.

Question 2

Suppose that a quiz show host asks a contestant which city in France has the greater population, Paris or Nantes. The contestant immediately responds, Paris. According to the discussion of decision making,
 
  a. this is an example of an illusory correlation.
  b. people usually have difficulty in answering questions that use the anchoring and adjustment heuristic .
  c. this is a variant of the representativeness heuristic.
  d. this is an example of the recognition heuristic.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d



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