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Answer: Cognitive Bias, Availability Heuristic.
Explanation:
A cognitive bias is a pattern of thought goofs in which a person perceive and evaluate information influenced by the context and framing of such information.
Availability Heuristic is a Cognitive Bias in which people use recent examples in order to evaluate decisions, topic or concepts.
In this case Richard is subject to this cognitive bias in the sense that he is confirming his belief that there are fewer cars on the road just because that's the most recent information he has.
In conclusion, when people
<span>This is the functionalist theory of aging. It is similar to traditional structural-functionalism of sociological theory. In such, having a function that a person or object can accomplish increases the utility and worth of the object (or person, in this case). This increase in utility increases the satisfaction, as well.</span>
<span>When a data value is converted to a standardized scale representing the number of standard deviations the data value lies from the mean, we call the new value a <span><u>z-score.</u>
According to its definition, a z-score is "</span></span><span>the number of standard deviations from the mean a data point is."</span>
