If Asked, "Which Is More Probable? A

question 29

Multiple Choice

If asked, "Which is more probable? A.Janice wears glasses and is a librarian.B.Janice is a librarian." Most people would answer A, although A is less likely to be true than B.According to Tversky and Kahneman, such faulty conclusions are based on

• A) the framing effect.
• B) convergent thinking.
• C) divergent thinking.
• D) the representativeness heuristic.

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