Exam 12: Deductive Reasoning and Decision Making

When we make judgments based on the ease with which examples come to mind,we are using

Researchers such as Gerd Gigerenzer argue that people create a wide variety of heuristics that generally help them make adaptive decisions in the real world-a point of view referred to as

You decide that a bearded professor wearing a rumpled sports coat is a member of the art faculty,rather than the business school faculty (which actually has more members)because he looks like an artist.What judgment error have you committed?

Julio has been told,"If your name appears on the list outside Dr.Forest's office,you'll be in the psychology honors class next semester." Julio's name does indeed appear on the list.Julio concludes that he will be in the psychology honors class next semester.Julio is using

Because of a recently passed law,in Oregon,everyone who gets a driver's license or state identification card is automatically registered to vote; they must choose to "opt out" if they do not wish to be registered.In most states,a person must take steps to register to vote.In the future,if voting statistics show that significantly more Oregonians than other U.S.citizens are registered to vote,we might say that this is a good example of the _______ heuristic in action.