The Authors of Your Text Report That a College Professor

question 57

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text report that a college professor asked students to list either two or ten ways to improve the course.Because students used the availability heuristic, which group of students gave the professor the highest course ratings overall?

• A) They were actually the same.
• B) the students who were asked to list ten improvements
• C) the students who were asked to list two improvements
• D) the students who skipped listing any improvements

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Definitions:

Appropriateness

The quality of being suitable, fitting, or right for a specific context or circumstances.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that acts as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

Primitive

Denotes something that is basic or unsophisticated in terms of development or technology, often implying an early stage of evolutionary or historical development.

Instinctive Component

An innate part of behavior that arises from within and is driven by evolutionary pressures, without the need for conscious thought.