The name which the behavioral scientists Gordon Pennycook and David Rand called the habit of judging the accuracy of a claim on the basis of who's saying it or whether we've heard it before is:
This refers to the over-reliance on the past events (heuristics) to make judgements about something and can cause mental stagnation.
With this in mind, we can see that Gordon Pennycook and David Rand believed that it was cognitive laziness that made people to judge the accuracy of a claim based on the person who said it and whether they have heard it before.
Read more about cognitive laziness here:
https://brainly.com/question/9990231
