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Lostsunrise [7]
3 years ago
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Cognitive psychologists have shown that people judge a type of event as being more likely to occur if they can more easily retri

eve instances of that event from memory. This is called the "availability heuristic." Child abductions are now reported in the media more widely than they were 50 years ago, and parents now have a greater fear of child abduction. A social psychologist might explain this greater fear in terms of the availability heuristic: Because of greater media coverage of abductions, parents can more easily retrieve instances of abductions from memory and therefore overestimate how common they are. This psychologist's explanation is at the level of:
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kupik [55]3 years ago
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Answer: Internal mental processes

Explanation: An internal mental process happens within someones mind, but are able to be studied. The internal mental process focuses on one's memory, attention span or lack there of, and perception. Due to using memory to recall events that may happen again because they have happened a first time, they are using/studying someones internal mental process.

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