Barbara wanted to know whether Americans bought more American-made cars or more foreign-made cars. She arrived at a conclusion based on the cars her American friends drove. In this scenario, Barbara used _____ to come to a conclusion
A) the anchoring heuristic
B) cognitive dissonance
C) the availability heuristic
D) functional fixedness
C
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A. 20% B. 30-60% C. 70% D. 80%
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a. psychophysical parallelism? b. ?epiphenomenalism c. ?interactionism d. ?occasionalism
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a) Eyewitness memory b) Metamemory c) A repressed memory d) A flashbulb memory