When People Form Judgments About Everyday Events, the Feature-Matching Process

question 45

Multiple Choice

When people form judgments about everyday events, the feature-matching process

• A) usually leads to inaccurate perceptions of a given event.
• B) usually leads people to select the right schema to encode a given event.
• C) usually creates a mismatch between the features of a schema and a given event.
• D) ensures that irrelevant or superficial features of a given event will not influence a person's schema.

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Definitions:

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