PSY 333 — Assignment 6

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Summary of Judgment

1. What is the availability heuristic? (1 point)

2. What is the peak-end heuristic? (2 points)

3. How is the peak-end heuristic related to the availability heuristic? (2 points)

4. What is the representativeness heuristic? (1 point)

5. Give an example where the representativeness heuristic may bias our judgments (2 points)

6. Give an example of how the representativeness heuristic can bias our judgments about random numbers (2 points)