You Are Taking a University Course with a Combined Graduate

question 165

Multiple Choice

You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you. If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) __________ student because __________.

• A) graduate; she's older
• B) undergraduate; you have a bias to expect undergraduates in your courses
• C) graduate; she fits your schema for graduate students
• D) undergraduate; there are more of them enrolled in the class

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Definitions:

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