When People Use Information About the Relative Frequency of Members

question 110

Multiple Choice

When people use information about the relative frequency of members of different categories in the population to make judgments (e.g., percentage of students who are psychology majors) , they are using

• A) the representativeness heuristic.
• B) the availability heuristic.
• C) census data.
• D) base rate information.

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