Which of the Following Answers Best Represents a Value Statement

question 57

Multiple Choice

Which of the following answers best represents a value statement for an informative presentation on fire ants?

• A) I want to familiarize audience members with the external anatomy of fire ants.
• B) Besides inflicting painful, sometimes deadly, stings, fire ants can eat up your garden, damage your home, and harm your pets and local wildlife.
• C) Fire ants have an integument, a head, a thorax, and an abdomen.
• D) Fire ants are dangerous.
• E) A tour of the fire ant's external anatomy will help you understand why fire ants are so hard to exterminate.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that causes people to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in explaining others' behavior.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive bias where individuals rely on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

First Instinct Fallacy

The false belief that it is better not to change one’s first answer on a test even if one starts to think that a different answer is correct.

Upward Counterfactual Thinking

The process of imagining better alternatives to past events, which can have various emotional or motivational effects.