Byron Has Been Watching His New Neighbor for a Week

question 153

Multiple Choice

Byron has been watching his new neighbor for a week. She drives a sporty car, carries a cell phone, and wears nothing but blue business suits. Byron decides his new neighbor must be a lawyer. In this case, Byron seems to have formed an opinion about his new neighbor's occupation based on

• A) the hindsight bias.
• B) the availability heuristic.
• C) the representativeness heuristic.
• D) the base-rate fallacy.

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Definitions:

Z-scores

Standard scores that indicate how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its distribution.

Average Score

The sum of all the numerical values in a set divided by the number of values in the set, representing the central tendency.

Variable

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Normally Distributed

A statistical term describing data that forms a bell-shaped curve when plotted, indicating that most values cluster around a central mean and tails off symmetrically towards the extremes.