A Person Who Is Concerned About Health, but Who Continues

question 81

Multiple Choice

A person who is concerned about health, but who continues to smoke cigarettes, is making an error in judgment called

• A)divergent thinking.
• B)ignoring the base rate.
• C)the representativeness heuristic.
• D)the framing effect.

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