A College Student Who Thinks He Has a High Probability

question 76

Multiple Choice

A college student who thinks he has a high probability of gaining acceptance into a highly selective graduate program that historically accepts only 20 percent of those who apply is probably making the intuitive error in judgment specifically called

• A) the framing effect.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) ignoring the base rate.
• D) convergent thinking.

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