Penny Is a Chronic Cigarette Smoker

question 122

Multiple Choice

Penny is a chronic cigarette smoker. Although she has heard of the research linking smoking to both lung cancer and emphysema she is not worried. Penny's belief that she will not fall ill due to smoking is an example of:

• A) the availability heuristic.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) the overconfidence phenomenon.
• D) hindsight bias.

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Definitions:

False Eyewitness

A situation where a witness of an event gives inaccurate, misleading, or mistaken testimony.

Misinformation Effect

A situation where the accuracy of a person's episodic memory deteriorates because of information encountered after the event.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder where someone can recall certain information but forgets the source of that information.

Retroactive Interference

occurs when new information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.