New Parents Have Left Their Child with a Babysitter for the First

question 81

Multiple Choice

New parents have left their child with a babysitter for the first time. When the mother used to babysit as a teenager, she made two dollars an hour. She is sure if she increases that rate by 50%, she is paying a fair rate. When she pays the babysitter three dollars an hour, the babysitter is very upset that she was paid so poorly. This error is due to the mother using a/an ________,

• A) representative heuristic
• B) base rate
• C) availability heuristic
• D) anchoring and adjustment heuristic

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