When Asked the Question,"Which Parent Should Be Denied Custody?" People

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Multiple Choice

When asked the question,"Which parent should be denied custody?" people tend to

• A) focus on the base rate of custody.
• B) ignore the base rate of custody.
• C) look for positive qualities in the parents.
• D) look for negative qualities in the parents.

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Definitions:

Fixation

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that allow people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, though not always perfectly accurate.

Overconfidence

The phenomenon where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy.

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that involves judging the probability of an event by how closely it matches one's prototype of that event.