According to the Textbook, ____________ Are Mental Shortcuts That Provide

question 54

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, ____________ are mental shortcuts that provide serviceable but often inexact answers to common judgmental problems.

• A) pluralistic judgments
• B) base rates
• C) mental deliberations
• D) heuristics

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Definitions:

Preattentive Process

Cognitive operations that occur below the level of conscious awareness, rapidly processing basic features of the environment.

Motivated Cognition

The influence of desires and preferences on the processing of information and decision making.

Experienced Reader

An individual who has developed advanced reading skills and is capable of comprehending and analyzing complex texts with proficiency.

Flashed Screen

A brief visual presentation used in psychological experiments to assess perception or cognitive processing.