A surgeon is reviewing the chances of success for two surgical procedures and says that if Procedure A is used, the chances of survival are 35%. If Procedure B is used, the chances of failure are 65%
What will patients tend to do when faced with this type of information?
a) They will make risk-averse decisions and select Procedure A.
b) They will tend to rely on the representativeness heuristic in making their decisions.
c) They will not recognize that the two items are identical and will select Procedure B.
d) They will focus on the size of the number associated with Procedure B and select it.
A
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a. only focus on behavior in response to environmental stimuli and behaviorists focus on the mental activity that can accompany behavior. b. are happier people, whereas behaviorists respond negatively to bells in their environment. c. focus on the mental activity that can accompany behavior and behaviorists only focus on behavior in response to environmental stimuli. d. believe that most learning occurs in large groups of people.
A child's first words usually comes in the form of __________, which are one-word utterances that stand for a whole phrase, whose meaning depends on the particular context in which they are used
a) phonemes b) semantics c) holophrases d) morphemes