If you make a decision about what most households in the country are like by thinking about what your college friends are like, you are succumbing to the __________ heuristic

a. representativeness
b. retrieval
c. availability
d. belief bias

Answer: c

Psychology

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At its most elementary level, which of the following is based on experiences with positive and negative instances?

a. prototyping b. the random search strategy c. synesthesia d. concept formation

Psychology

Culturally-disapproved of behaviors in the past were often given psychological labels. The so-called "mental disorder" for a woman that had a healthy sexual appetite was known as

a. anarchia. b. nymphomania. c. self-defeating personality. d. drapetomania.

Psychology