Vicarious Liability Refers to

question 9

Multiple Choice

Vicarious liability refers to

• A)failure to take ordinary and reasonable care.
• B)when a person is held responsible for actions of another person.
• C)property damage.
• D)high risk insurance coverage.
• E)common hazards in our society.

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representative Heuristic

A cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on how similar it is to their prototype of a particular event or behavior, often leading to errors in decision making or judgment.

Stroop Effect

A psychological phenomenon that demonstrates the interference in reaction time when the name of a color is printed in a color not denoted by the name.

Isolated Letters

Individual alphabetic characters presented separately from words or sentences, often used in reading or perception studies.