According to the introductory discussion of decision making in Chapter 12,
a. researchers in this area come from many other disciplines, in addition to psychology.
b. the research on decision making is usually lower in ecological validity than is the research on logical reasoning.
c. people are less likely to use heuristics when they work on decision-making tasks, rather than on logical-reasoning tasks.
d. like logical reasoning, decision making has a formal set of rules for drawing the correct conclusions.
Ans: a
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