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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 representative heuristic can lead to both:
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 - The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency of:
A. observers to favor external attributions in explaining the behavior of others
B. observers to favor internal attributions in explaining the behavior of others
C. actors to favor external attributions in explaining the behavior of others
D. actors to favor situational attributions in explaining the behavior of others - The conjunction fallacy is a tendency to:
A. underestimate the odds of a chance even if that event hasn’t occurred recently
B. overestimate the odds of a chance event if that even hasn’t occurred recently
C. draw general conclusions based on a few isolated cases
D. believe that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone - The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is known as _________________?
A. good continuation
B. closure
C. proximity
D. None of these - The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called _________________?
A. closure
B. continuity
C. similarity
D. proximity - The tendency for us to blame people and underestimate the environment for causing behavior is known as the:
A. Self-serving bias
B. Balance principle
C. Cognitive dissonance model
D. Fundamental attribution error - Our tendency to establish and maintain warm relationships with people if they are physically attractive is best explained in terms of:
A. social exchange theory
B. the just- world phenomenon
C. the bystander effect
D. the foot- in- the- door phenomenon - Our tendency to notice and remember instance in which a premonition of an unlikely phone call is actually followed by the call most clearly contribute to:
A. the placebo effect
B. the false consensus effect
C. replication
D. an illusory correlation
