A professor asks students to guess what percent of people in homeless shelters are parents and children. Before you can consider your answer, another student shouts out "about 10%." Your answer may be either higher or lower than it would be otherwise because of

a. the belief-bias effect.
b. the confirmation bias.
c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
d. the hindsight bias.

Ans: c

Psychology

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