A Person Who Questions the Validity of the Research Findings

question 11

Multiple Choice

A person who questions the validity of the research findings that indicate smoking leads to health problems because he knows someone who has smoked most of his life and has no health problems is using _____.

• A) the representativeness heuristic
• B) the availability heuristic
• C) person-who reasoning
• D) inferential-statistical reasoning

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Definitions:

Efficient Output Level

The quantity of production that maximizes a firm's profit by equating marginal cost and marginal revenue.

Units

A standard quantity or amount used as a measure of a physical quantity, such as length, mass, or time.

Monopolistic Competitor

A type of market structure where many firms offer products that are similar but not identical, allowing for some degree of market power and product differentiation.

Short Run

A period in economics during which some factors of production and costs are variable, while others remain fixed.