People who have severe brain damage sometimes approach objects in the world as if they are seeing them for the first time. That is, instead of seeing a "chair," for example, these people see "a wooden object with four legs." Similarly, instead of seeing two dogs, such people might see "a small tan animal with fur and a large brown object with its tongue hanging out." One might conclude that
people with this kind of brain damage ____.
a. do not have schemas
b. have inaccurate schemas
c. do not use heuristics
d. have inaccurate heuristics
A
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a. ?schematic b. ?anchoring c. ?availability d. ?representativeness
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a. epigenesis. c. heritability. b. codominance. d. niche-picking.
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