Your text mentions a young woman who headed home before finishing a college tour after noticing a student who was wearing unfashionable shoes. This woman was using the representativeness heuristic by assuming that
A) a sample represented the larger population.
B) easily recalled examples represented more prevalent categories.
C) more people agreed with her than actually did.
D) her point of view was unique.
E) her initial hypothesis was correct despite evidence against it.
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Q17: Compared to men, women tend to
A)report less
Q18: Concepts defined by specific rules are called
A)natural
Q19: The mental representation and manipulation of information
Q20: Which of the following is the best
Q21: The tendency to base decisions on information
Q23: Most people assume there are more words
Q24: A heuristic is
A)a step-by-step process for solving
Q25: Guilford was a pioneer in the development
Q26: Which cognitive bias best describes our tendency
Q27: Mental set is a
A)type of means-end heuristic.
B)tendency
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