Decisions Made on the Basis of the Representativeness Heuristic May

question 64

Multiple Choice

Decisions made on the basis of the representativeness heuristic may be flawed because they tend to ignore information about ________.

• A)base rates
• B)schemas
• C)rational processing schemes
• D)automatic priming
• E)the availability heuristic

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