Suppose that you are assigning eight college students to two committees. By chance, one committee has four students from the social sciences, and the other has four students from the humanities
If people protest that this arrangement does not seem to be random, they are following
a. the confirmation bias.
b. the base-rate fallacy.
c. the availability heuristic.
d. the representativeness heuristic.
Ans: d
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Fill in the blank with correct word.
In a study reported in the text, African-American children were told stories in which light- and dark-complexioned African-American characters were associated with either positive or negative attributes. When the children were asked to recall the stories, what happened?
a. The children remembered more stories in which the light-complexioned characters had positive attributes and the dark-complexioned characters had negative attributes. b. The children remembered more stories in which the light-complexioned characters had negative attributes and the dark-complexioned characters had positive attributes. c. The children preferred stories in which the light-complexioned characters had positive attributes and the dark-complexioned characters had negative attributes. d. The children preferred stories in which the light-complexioned characters had negative attributes and the dark-complexioned characters had positive attributes. e. The children were able to remember all stories equally well, regardless of the attributes assigned to the characters.