One of the difficulties surveying people about rare events is that
a. those events are likely to involve sensitive issues that people are reluctant to discuss.
b. a small increase in the rate of false positives leads to a very large, inaccurate estimate when generalized to the population.
c. people have very different attitudes about rare events, so accurate responses are to get.
d. people are likely to show high levels of acquiescence about such items.
B
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a. psychoanalytical theory b. instinctual theory c. social learning theory d. humanistic theory.
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A. prototype; natural B. prototype; formal C. mental model; natural D. mental model; formal
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