The Representativeness Heuristic Leads People to Make Judgments About Events

question 14

Multiple Choice

The representativeness heuristic leads people to make judgments about events according to

• A)their recent experiences with such events.
• B)the population of events that they appear to represent.
• C)how easy it is to find relevant events.
• D)how well those events are presented in memory.

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Definitions:

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