You're Deciding Whether You Should Take a New Medication

question 216

Multiple Choice

You're deciding whether you should take a new medication.One review tells you that the medication has a 5 percent risk of a serious side effect.Another review tells you that 95 percent of patients do not experience that side effect.What differs between these two reviews

• A) bounded rationality 
• B) the algorithm 
• C) representativeness 
• D) framing

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach aimed at uncovering the unconscious mind to treat psychopathologies.

Criminally Insane

A legal term used to describe a person who is found to be not responsible for their crimes due to mental illness.

Lobotomies

Surgical operations on the brain, once used to treat mental illness, involving severing connections in the prefrontal cortex, now widely discredited and abandoned.

Frontal Lobes

The frontal lobes are regions of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving, control of purposeful behaviors, consciousness, and emotions.