Some Clinicians' Continuous Confidence in Uninformative Tests May Be Due

question 53

Multiple Choice

Some clinicians' continuous confidence in uninformative tests may be due to

• A)the inoculation effect.
• B)learned helplessness.
• C)the representativeness heuristic.
• D)illusory correlation.

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