Suppose That You Have a Certain Idea About What a Tropical

question 35

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you have a certain idea about what a tropical island should be like: It should be a tourist destination, have palm trees, enjoy a warm climate, and contain plenty of bars that serve cocktails with paper umbrellas.Your general understanding of what a tropical island is all about is MOST clearly an example of a____.

• A)script
• B)schema
• C)heuristic
• D)counterfactual

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Definitions:

Effortful Thinking

The cognitive processing that requires a deliberate, conscious effort to solve complex problems or to gain new insights.

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that involves judging the probability of an event by its similarity to a prototype or example.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Heuristic

A rule-of-thumb or shortcut that is used to make decisions or solve problems more quickly.