Even Though There Are Relatively Few Professors of Chinese Literature

question 60

Multiple Choice

Even though there are relatively few professors of Chinese literature and many postal workers in the U.S.,students guessed that a man who spoke Chinese and reads a lot was probably a Chinese literature professor rather than a postal worker.This is an example of using

• A) the representativeness heuristic.
• B) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
• C) the confirmatory heuristic.
• D) the availability heuristic.

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