A. the arrangement problem and the framing effect
B. the framing effect and the gambler’s fallacy
C. the conjunction fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy
D. the conjunction fallacy and the overconfidence effect
Related Mcqs:
- The use of heuristic rather than algorithms is most likely to:
A. speed up language development in some children
B. minimize the overconfidence phenomenon
C. involve greater reliance on language skills
D. save time in arriving at solutions to problems - The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:
A. underestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
B. judge the likelihood of an event in terms of how readily instances of its occurrence are remembered
C. cling to our initial conceptions, even though they have been discredited
D. judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype - Which of the following is an example of people’s reliance on the representativeness heuristic to make decisions or judgements?
A. People report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
B. People tend to overestimate car accidents
C. People are more likely to attribute a case of heartbum to spicy food than bland food
D. People tend to underestimate death from diabetes - Three year old Shawn ate lead paint which was chipping off the walls in an older home. Consequently, he developed a psychosis based on brain damage due to lead poisoning. Shawn’s psychosis would be called a(n):
A. functional psychosis
B. organic psychosis
C. neural psychosis
D. neo – cortical psychosis - Any procedural variable which can cause a subset of the population to be non-representative of the population is a _____________?
A. sample error
B. sample bias
C. population error
D. population bias
E. None of these - In which type of research a representative sample of people asked to answer questions about their behaviors or opinions?
A. experiment
B. the survey
C. the case study
D. naturalistic observation - A common method for selecting representative samples is to select them.
A. randomly from the larger population
B. strictly from volunteers
C. by threatening or coercing institutionalized populations
D. from confidential lists of mall order firms - A representative sample is an essential element of the:
A. survey method
B. psychoanalytic method
C. natural experiment or case study
D. clinical method - Educational products, as representative of the total effect of learning, differ among_____groups and between members of the same group:
A. Cultural
B. Licensed
C. Successful
D. Existing - On which of the following tasks would the presence of observers be least likely to lead to better and faster performance?
A. raking leaves
B. bicycle racing
C. washing dishes
D. solving a crossword puzzle
