People Sometimes Form a Stereotype About Members of a Certain

question 167

Multiple Choice

People sometimes form a stereotype about members of a certain group because they remember a few people who fit the stereotype and forget those who do not fit it. Reasoning of this type is an example of the

• A) Stroop effect.
• B) use of algorithms.
• C) availability heuristic.
• D) use of base-rate information.

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