Someone Sees a Strange-Looking Flying Object

question 133

Multiple Choice

Someone sees a strange-looking flying object. It might be a white pelican, or it might be a UFO from outer space. The viewer decides that it is a UFO. Assuming that it really was a pelican, which mistake of reasoning has the viewer made?

• A) failure to use the availability heuristic
• B) failure to use the representativeness heuristic
• C) failure to consider base-rate information
• D) failure to use a cognitive map

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