When People Need to Make a Decision Involving a High

question 70

Multiple Choice

When people need to make a decision involving a high degree of uncertainty, what techniques do they often use to estimate the probability of an event occurring?

• A) the trial-and-error strategy and the additive model
• B) the elimination by aspects model and the single-feature model
• C) the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
• D) insight, intuition, mental sets, and pure guesswork

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