A College Student Who Starts Using Crystal Meth but States

question 28

Multiple Choice

A college student who starts using crystal meth but states that he will be able to stop at any time is probably making the intuitive error in judgment specifically called

• A) the framing effect.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) ignoring the base rate.
• D) convergent thinking.

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