What Is Occurring When Someone Leads to a Judgment Based

question 32

Multiple Choice

What is occurring when someone leads to a judgment based solely on biases such as the belief in the law of small numbers to draw conclusions about the degree to which a symptom or behavior is representative of an underlying disorder or condition?

• A) Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic
• B) Availability Heuristic
• C) Affect Heuristic
• D) Representativeness Heuristic

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Definitions:

Acute Pain

Short-term pain that results from tissue damage or other trauma.

Psychosocial

Referring to the interrelation of social factors and individual thought and behavior.

Gate Control Theory

A theory proposing that there are neural "gates" in the spinal cord that control the transmission of pain signals to the brain.

Specificity Theory

A concept in pain management suggesting that pain signals are transmitted through specific receptors and neural pathways.