When People Need to Make a Decision Involving a High

question 12

Multiple Choice

When people need to make a decision involving a high degree of uncertainty, what techniques do they often use to estimate the probability of an event occurring?

• A)the trial-and-error strategy and the additive model
• B)the elimination-by-aspects model and the single-feature model
• C)the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
• D)insight, intuition, mental sets, and pure guesswork

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Definitions:

Biophysical Profile

A prenatal ultrasound evaluation of a fetus's health, assessing factors like heart rate, muscle tone, movement, breathing, and amniotic fluid level.

Amniotic Fluid

The protective liquid contained within the amniotic sac surrounding and cushioning a fetus during pregnancy.

Heart Rate

The number of times a heart beats per minute, an important indicator of cardiovascular health.

First Trimester Screen

A prenatal test conducted to evaluate the risk of certain chromosomal conditions in a fetus during the first trimester of pregnancy.