According to the discussion of the representativeness heuristic in Chapter 12, people often commit the small-sample fallacy in social situations. An example of this point is that
a. people may form a stereotype, based on only a few members of a particular ethnic group.
b. people frequently try to confirm their current hypothesis.
c. people judge others in terms of personal characteristics that are easy to remember.
d. people judge the conjunction of two events to be more likely than just one of those events.
Ans: a
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