You hear that one of the Velazquez children is an outstanding Little League player and immediately conclude it's their one son, rather than any of their four daughters. You reach your quite possibly erroneous conclusion as the result of the ____.?

a. ?confirmation bias
b. ?anchoring heuristic
c. ?representativeness heuristic
d. ?multi-attribute hypothesis


ANSWER:
c

Psychology

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a. refracted by b. absorbed by c. reflected by d. passed through

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Psychology