Stereotypes Are an Example of the Availability Heuristic

question 36

True/False

Stereotypes are an example of the availability heuristic.

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Definitions:

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents a distribution of probabilities of a continuous random variable.

Binomial Probability

The probability of obtaining a specific number of successes out of a fixed number of binary trials.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of discrete random variable that counts how often a particular event occurs in a fixed number of tries or trials.

Normal Approximation

A statistical method where a binomial distribution is approximated using the normal distribution, usually applied when sample sizes are large.