You Just Met Your New Supervisor and Perceive Her to Be

question 144

Multiple Choice

You just met your new supervisor and perceive her to be cold, calculating, and intimidating. Your friend, who has worked with this individual before, assures you the supervisor isn't really like you perceive. You have doubts about your friend's perception because of

• A)anchoring and adjustment heuristics.
• B)availability heuristics.
• C)representative heuristics.
• D)basic heuristics.

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