Don incorrectly believes that most defendants who claim they were insane "get off scot-free" and thus never serve time in prison. If his belief is based on several easily recalled cases in which this appears to be true, he is using the
a) availability heuristic.
b) regressive heuristic.
c) comparison heuristic.
d) representativeness heuristic.
A
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The oldest, most general theory of aging is the ______ theory, which likens human bodies to machines
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a. avoid drinking outdoors. b. drink only with good friends. c. avoid smoking while drinking. d. avoid drinking in unfamiliar places.
When you have to resolve your short-term personal desire for taking a long, hot shower with the long-term need of society to conserve water, community psychologists would say that you are dealing with
a) consciousness-raising. b) social action. c) the commons dilemma. d) the environmental dilemma.