1. According to Cosmides’ social contract theory, college students should best b

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1. According to Cosmides’ social contract theory, college students should best be able to perform best on which version of the Wason selection task?

A. a task in which students are trying to help the community

B. a task in which students are trying to set up a new student organization

C. a task in which some students are trying to unfairly gain admission to the university

D. a task in which students are advocating for new student events

2. The tendency to ignore larger statistical deviations on smaller sample sizes as compared to larger ones is a characteristic of which reasoning heuristic?

A. availability

B. overconfidence

C. illusory correlation

D. representativeness

3. If a person has five letters in his/her name, then s/he is a Glirple. Angie now reasons that Fred cannot possibly be a Glirple. Angie has ______.

A. made a correct inference according to modus ponens

B. made a correct inference according to modus tollens

C. committed the fallacy of denying the antecedent

D. committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent

4. Of the following, which should always produce a logically certain conclusion?

A. inductive reasoning

B. confirmation reasoning

C. deductive reasoning

D. utilitarian reasoning

Explanation / Answer

1) In the socail contract theory of Cosmides, college students performs best by connecting to the community, thus option A is the correct answer.

2) The tendency to ignore larger statistical deviations on smaller sample sizes as compared to larger ones is a characteristic of representativeness reasoning of heuristic, option B is the correct answer.

3) Option A is correct, made a correct inference according to modus ponens.

4) option D , is correct option , which will produce logical certain conclusions.

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