Multiple Choice
How could the illusory correlation effect produce a stereotype?
A) People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype.
B) People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people.
C) People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics, and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics.
D) People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor, and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.
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