When Liebes and Katz Compared the Decodings of Six Different

question 37

Multiple Choice

When Liebes and Katz compared the decodings of six different ethnic groups from three different countries, they found that the distinct strategies they used to interpret could be explained by their ______.

• A) age
• B) home life
• C) cultural position
• D) country of origin

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Muggings

Acts of attacking someone with the intent to rob them, often using violence or the threat of violence.

Heuristics

Simple, efficient rules, either hard-coded by evolutionary processes or learned, that help in making decisions, forming judgments, or solving problems.

System II Strategies

Cognitive processes associated with analytical thinking that are deliberate, controlled, and typically require conscious effort, as opposed to intuitive or automatic System I processes.