Kahneman and Tversky (1973)found That a Majority of Participants Mistakenly

question 20

Multiple Choice

Kahneman and Tversky (1973) found that a majority of participants mistakenly believed there were more words in the English language that start with the letter r than words that have r in the third position.These results demonstrate the functioning of

• A) the availability heuristic.
• B) the regression fallacy.
• C) the representativeness heuristic.
• D) an illusory correlation.

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