When Steps Were Taken to Ensure That Participants Fully Understood

question 11

Multiple Choice

When steps were taken to ensure that participants fully understood the story, by making the category of a bank teller explicit, Tversky and Kahneman (1983) found that:

• A) The conjunction fallacy disappeared statistically
• B) The conjunction fallacy increased in magnitude
• C) There remained a strong (though somewhat reduced) conjunction fallacy effect
• D) People became more risk averse
• E) People became more risk seeking

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Definitions:

Radius

A bone in the forearm that extends from the lateral side of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist, also refers to the half-length of a circle's diameter.

Tibia

The inner and typically larger of the two bones between the knee and the ankle in vertebrates, parallel with the fibula.

Friction

The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

Scales

Small, rigid plates that grow out of an animal's skin to provide protection. In fish and reptiles, scales perform this protective function.