Cognition Quiz Module 8

The concept of the availability heuristic is illustrated when you

• choose one movie over another because you prefer the design of its poster at the cinema.
• never make a decision about where to eat because you are rarely hungry.
• vow to never drive again because of the horrible accident you witnessed in front of your house
• refuse to buy food that you think is overpriced, even if you are wrong.

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:

• The availability heuristic
• An algorithm
• The representativeness heuristic
• Functional fixedness

Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

• Functional fixedness
• the availability heuristic
• Belief perseverance
• anchoring heuristic

The easier it is for people to remember an instance in which they were betrayed by a friend, the more they expect such an event to recur. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• insight
• representativeness heuristic
• anchoring heuristic
• availability heuristic

At the state fair, Jonah plays a game where he has to guess the weight of the man working the booth. He isn't sure how much the man ways, but knowing that his own weight is around 160 pounds, he guesses that the man is 190 pounds. What heuristic did Jonah likely use?

• framing heuristic
• representative heuristic
  
• availability heuristic
• anchoring heuristic

Jimmy does not know that much about car companies and their profitability, so when asked which car company sells the most amount of cars he simply bases his answer on which car company he knows the most about. This is an example of

• insight
• intuition
• representative heuristic
• availability heuristic

We are much more likely to think of a tattoo-covered man as a biker than as a librarian because of the use of ____________.

• anchoring heuristic
• representativeness heuristic
• hindsight bias
• intuition

The _________heuristic occurs when people use a stereotype to assess the likely occurrence of an event.

• representative
• availability
• anchoring
• adjustment

The __________ heuristic occurs when people adjust a previously existing value to make a decision.

• representative
• availability
• anchoring
• framing

Bill has long blond hair, is from California, and says "hey dude" a lot. You think he is from California. What heuristic did you rely upon to make your judgment?

• representative
• availability
• anchoring
• framing