Asked by Karina Aponte on Jul 24, 2024
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People overestimate the frequency of words beginning with the letter L,as compared to words that have L as the third letter,because of the heuristic of ______.
A) availability
B) representativeness
C) anchor and adjust
D) hindsight
Availability Heuristic
A strategy in which one estimates the frequency or probability of an event by the ease with which mental operations, such as retrieval of examples and construction of examples, can be carried out.
Frequency
In general terms, it refers to how often something occurs within a specific interval or context, such as the number of repetitions of a wave per second in physics.
- Explain the impact of representativeness and availability heuristics on probabilistic reasoning.
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Learning Objectives
- Explain the impact of representativeness and availability heuristics on probabilistic reasoning.
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