Pollutants of Water Include Both Living Organisms and Nonliving Materials

question 16

True/False

Pollutants of water include both living organisms and nonliving materials.

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Definitions:

Representativeness Heuristic

The tendency to make judgments about group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one’s stereotype of a group rather than on available base rate information.

Divergent Thinking

Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problem.

Convergent Thinking

Thinking that produces the single best solution to a problem.

Deductive Reasoning

A thought process wherein a verdict is reached through the consistency of numerous claims that are often regarded as correct.