Risen and Gilovich (2007) Conducted an Experiment in Which Participants

question 42

Multiple Choice

Risen and Gilovich (2007) conducted an experiment in which participants estimated the chances that a student in a large lecture class would be called on to answer a question based on assigned reading if the student had either done the assigned reading or not. Which outcome BEST describes what participants tended to estimate when the student had not done the reading?

• A) They correctly estimated that the student would be more likely to be called on.
• B) They incorrectly estimated that the student would be more likely to be called on.
• C) They correctly estimated that the student would be less likely to be called on.
• D) They correctly estimated that the student would be neither more nor less likely to be called on.

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