In terms of undoing, which is most involved?
a. tending to maintain properties of the main object or focus of the story unless a different focus is provided
b. satisficing
c. the law of small numbers
d. counterfactual thinking driven by availability and frequency effects
Question 2In the three months following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, the rate of traffic fatalities increased by about 350 people. This increase was most likely due to the operation of __________.
a. the effect of sample size
b. the familiarity bias
c. the salience bias
d. the representativeness heuristic
Question 3When we alter an unusual story element, substituting a more typical or normal element in its place, we refer to this as reflecting __________.
a. the simulation heuristic
b. downhill change
c. uphill change
d. the familiarity bias
Question 4The simulation heuristic involves __________.
a. running a computer simulation of human cognitive decision making
b. imagining the outcome of your own actions
c. making a model of the event to help your decision making
d. imaging other possible outcomes of an event
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