Your Textbook,and Many (But Not All)paleoanthropologists,refer to a Species More

question 16

Short Answer

Your textbook,and many (but not all)paleoanthropologists,refer to a species more closely related to humans than to chimps as a(n)________.

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that depends on the first examples that spring to mind when considering a particular subject, idea, approach, or choice.

Confirmation Bias

The disposition to seek, grasp, esteem, and recount information that confirms existing preconceptions or theories.

Belief Perseverance

The phenomenon where people hold onto their beliefs even when faced with evidence that contradicts or disproves them.

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that simplify decision making by reducing complex problem solving to simpler judgment processes.