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In What Specific Ways Did Darwin's Data and Theory Influence

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In what specific ways did Darwin's data and theory influence psychology in terms of both subject matter and methods?​


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Overconfident

A psychological state characterized by an individual's unwarranted belief in their own abilities or the accuracy of their knowledge, often leading to risk-taking behaviors.

Base-Rate Information

Statistical information about the frequency of events or characteristics within a given population.

Availability Heuristic

An intuitive leap based on readily recalled examples when considering a particular subject, notion, approach, or judgment.

Representativeness Heuristic

The representativeness heuristic is a cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on how similar the aspects are to the prototypes the person holds in their mind.

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