Suppose That Oksana Is Driving in a Car to a Friend's

question 49

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Oksana is driving in a car to a friend's house. As she pulls into the friend's driveway, she sees that the odometer shows the number 2222.2 miles. She says to herself, "This number is weird…something really unusual is going to happen today when I am with my friend." This reaction would be an example of

• A) the consistency bias.
• B) the law of large numbers.
• C) the representativeness heuristic.
• D) the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic.

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