How Could the Illusory Correlation Effect Produce a Stereotype

question 53

Multiple Choice

How could the illusory correlation effect produce a stereotype?

• A)People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype.
• B)People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people.
• C)People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics,and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics.
• D)People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor,and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.