A student who works at a record store and plays in a rock band thinks for a minute about his own music-purchasing habits, and then makes a quick guess about the number of other students who buy more than 30 CDs a year. He grossly overestimates
He has probably applied the
A) availability heuristic.
B) representativeness heuristic.
C) primacy heuristic.
D) anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
Answer: D
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A. It cannot account for perception of low pitch sounds. B. It cannot account for perception of low amplitude sounds. C. It requires the cochlea to vibrate, and it does not. D. It requires that neurons respond as quickly than they are able to do.
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A) substances that might cause birth defects. B) abnormalities in the child's chromosomes. C) premature babies. D) layers of tissues in the developing organism.
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a. children begin watching before the age of one year b. children are less likely to spend time playing outside c. children are less likely to read d. behavioral effects are not observed until the age of five years