The Textstates That Most Leaders of the Enlightenment Sought to

question 79

Multiple Choice

The textstates that most leaders of the Enlightenment sought to

• A) return society to the freedoms of ancient Athenian democracy.
• B) restructure society according the Christian humanist principles.
• C) impose an ordered freedom on social and political institutions.
• D) enlighten society through the universal education of both sexes.
• E) overthrow unenlightened political systems through revolutions, violent if need be.

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

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

Overconfidence

A cognitive bias where an individual's subjective confidence in their own abilities is greater than their objective accuracy.

Representativeness Heuristic

A mental shortcut that involves making a decision based on how closely a new situation or object resembles a prototype or typical case.

Fixation

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.