Question

When asked to indicate whether San Diego or San Antonio has more inhabitants, more German university students answered correctly than did American university students. This best illustrated the adaptive value of a(n):____________

Answer 1

Answer:

heuristic                                                                      

Explanation:

Heuristic: In psychology, the term heuristic is determined as an efficient mental process or a mental shortcut, due to which an individual can make judgment efficiently and quickly along with that he or she can solve problems logically. Heuristics have been applied to the rule of thumb strategy.

During the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has proposed three different types of heuristics including anchoring and adjustment, availability, and representativeness.

In the question above, the given statement best illustrated the adaptive value of a heuristic.