Kanye Read Several Newspaper Articles About Shark Attacks,and He Is

question 42

Multiple Choice

Kanye read several newspaper articles about shark attacks,and he is now convinced that shark attacks are common.When Kanye went on vacation,he refused to go swimming because of his belief about the high probability of a shark attack.This is an example of the:

• A)fundamental attribution error.
• B)representativeness heuristic.
• C)availability heuristic.
• D)false consensus effect.

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