Alexis Has Been Diagnosed with a Learning Disability

question 117

Multiple Choice

Alexis has been diagnosed with a learning disability.She doesn't believe that the psychologist was accurate in this diagnosis,so she decided to seek out additional information about the disability,and its rate of misdiagnosis.She finds several websites and a couple of books that suggest that the diagnosis for the particular disability is wrong 20 percent of the time.Alexis is confident that hers is a case of misdiagnosis,and even after getting three additional evaluations from other diagnosticians (who all agree with the original diagnosis) ,Alexis refuses to believe otherwise.What does this example illustrate

• A) availability heuristics 
• B) gambler's fallacy 
• C) overestimating the improbable 
• D) confirmation bias leading to belief perseverance

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