Frank mistakenly believes that there are more

words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to the ________.
a) representativeness heuristic
b) availability heuristic

c) planning fallacy
d) confirmation bias


ANS: b

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Claude has been seeing a therapist in an attempt to finally stop smoking. The therapist has described a number of specific techniques that they might try to eliminate Claude's behavior of smoking. In this case, his therapist's approach to treatment would MOST likely be classified as

a. insight therapy. b. biomedical therapy. c. homeopathic therapy. d. behavior therapy.

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The psychological refractory period refers to the ________ between the length of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) and the speed of responding to a second stimulus

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