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Before starting an experiment, Dr. Cortez asks a participant to read a detailed description of a study and its risks and benefits, and sign a statement indicating he agrees to participate in the research. This procedure is known as:
Availability Heuristic
A quick-thinking process that depends on the first examples that pop into someone's head when they are considering a particular subject, idea, approach, or choice.
Relative Comparisons
The act of evaluating something in relation to another similar item.
Availability Heuristic
A cognitive shortcut that relies on the immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.
Representative Heuristic
A mental shortcut that involves making a probability judgement by comparing an object or event to a prototype of the object or event.
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