The Availability Heuristic Is a Cognitive Bias That Can Affect

question 17

Multiple Choice

The availability heuristic is a cognitive bias that can affect the accuracy of negotiators' judgments.Which of the following best describes the availability heuristic?

• A)Doing something for the counterparty and the counterparty immediately reciprocates
• B)Overestimating the type or number of people in a certain category because it is easier to bring instances of this group or category of people to mind.
• C)Describing some occurrence in vivid detail,even if it is an exceptional occurrence
• D)Examining other procedures or alternatives without regard to whether they are available

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Definitions:

Larger Dose

Refers to administering a higher quantity of a substance, typically used in the context of drug dosage or experimental treatments in research.

Retrospective Processing

The continual assessment of contingencies, which can lead to a reevaluation of prior conditioning of a conditioned stimulus (CS) with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS).

Mackintosh's Attentional

A theory explaining how the predictability of a stimulus influences its attentional control in associative learning.

Rescorla-Wagner

A model of conditioning that emphasizes the importance of the strength of the association between the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus.