When Peter Wason asked people to guess the rule he had used to devise a sequence of three numbers, they typically guessed incorrectly. Their errors best illustrated the effect of:
a. functional fixedness.
b. the availability heuristic.
c. framing.
d. confirmation bias.
e. the representativeness heuristic.
Answer: d. confirmation bias.
Psychology
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a. Saving energy and strengthening memory b. Strengthening muscles and providing dreams that predict the future c. Removing lactic acid from the brain and increasing the velocity of action potentials d. Stimulating underused synapses and increasing body temperature
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