When people use the availability heuristic to make quick judgments, they are likely to do all of
the following except correct answers base the decision on lots of information about a person.
According to the authors of your text, what are the three reasons why schemas become
accessible? correct answers chronic accessibility due to experience; a current goal; priming
Ethan and Heather see a man stumbling around as he walks down the street. Ethan, who belongs
to Alcoholics Anonymous, thinks the man is drunk, but Heather, who just watched a TV special
on Michael J. Fox, thinks the man has Parkinson's disease. These differing interpretations of the
same behavior seem to be caused by Ethan and Heather's differences in correct answers
accessibility
Alice goes to see a rerun of Jaws (a movie about a vicious shark) a few days before she takes off
to Florida on spring break. On break, she finds that she is now too nervous to spend much time
actually in the water, since she is convinced that anything she sees in the water is a shark. Her
heightened sensitivity is due to correct answers priming
Christopher is considering breaking up with his high-school sweetheart. He spends many hours
weighing the benefits and drawbacks, he asks his friends for advice, and he thinks about it
further before coming to his decision. In this case, Christopher is using correct answers
controlled thinking.
How are self-fulfilling prophecies and schemas related? correct answers Self-fulfilling
prophecies are inadvertent and unconscious influences on behavior by an individual's schemas.
The availability heuristic is based on the principle of using ________ as a cue to probability.
correct answers accessibility
Allison is a very sweet, intelligent, amicable person. However, Joe hears from her ex-boyfriend
that she is hard to get along with and very snobby. According to research on the self-fulfilling