In One Version of the Selection Task, Participants Are Told

question 171

Multiple Choice

In one version of the selection task, participants are told to turn over cards to verify the rule "If there is a vowel on one side of the card, there must be an even number on the other." One-third of the participants turn over only the card showing a vowel. This error may be seen as exemplifying __________.

• A) the confirmation bias
• B) the representativeness heuristic
• C) the availability heuristic
• D) pragmatic reasoning

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