Kerry strongly believes that his son Andy is not very bright. According to belief perseverance, Kerry's reaction and explanations of Andy's academic achievement as an honours student would include all of the following, except:

a) Andy had easy teachers.

b) Perhaps he is brighter than I thought.

c) Grade inflation allows anyone to achieve honours.

d) Honours have little association with intelligence.

e) representativeness heuristic.

30) Is heuristic an example of availability bias? Refer to the following statement for questions 31 and 32 Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. In college she majored in philosophy. As a student she was corned with issues of discrimination and social justice. a) Linda is a teller b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement

Suppose a researcher gave people the following problem: In a group of 100 people, 70 are pilots and 30 are bookkeepers. Of that group, one man is meek, timid, and enjoys helping people. Is he more likely to be a pilot or a bookkeeper? Most subjects would answer A) bookkeeper, demonstrating a bias toward representativeness B) bookkeeper, demonstrating a prior probability bias C) pilot, demonstrating use of the base-rate information given D) pilot, demonstrating the availability bias E) bookkeeper, demonstrating functional fixedness

8. Suppose a researcher gave people the following problem: In a group of 100 people, 70 are pilots and 30 are bookkeepers. Of that group, one man is meek, timid, and enjoys helping people. Is he more likely to be a pilot or a bookkeeper? Most subjects would answer A) bookkeeper, demonstrating a bias toward representativeness B) bookkeeper, demonstrating a prior probability bias C) pilot, demonstrating use of the base-rate information given D) pilot, demonstrating the availability bias E) bookkeeper, demonstrating functional fixedness