The Availability Heuristic

question 1

Multiple Choice

The availability heuristic:

• A) can cause individuals to overestimate the occurrence of unlikely events.
• B) leads individuals to seek information that fits their point of view and to discount information that does not.
• C) leads to initial information,impressions,data,feedback,or stereotypes anchoring subsequent judgments and decisions.
• D) can make knowledge of an outcome influence beliefs about the probability that we could have predicted the outcome earlier.
• E) creates a tendency to consider risks about gains differently than risks pertaining to losses.

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