The Authors of Your Text Report That a College Professor

question 134

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text report that a college professor asked students to list either two or ten ways to improve the course. Because students used the availability heuristic, which group of students gave the professor the highest course ratings overall?

• A) The ratings were actually the same.
• B) The students who were asked to list ten improvements
• C) The students who were asked to list two improvements
• D) The students who skipped listing any improvements

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Definitions:

Predictability

The extent to which future states or occurrences can be foreseen based on current knowledge and past patterns.

Population Increase

A rise in the number of individuals within a species or area over a specific period of time.

Environmental Resistance

The sum of environmental factors such as predators, disease, and competition that limit the growth, distribution, or size of populations.

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.