Question

A professor asks students to guess what percent of people in homeless shelters are parents and children. Before you can consider your answer, another student shouts out "about 10%." Your answer may be either higher or lower than it would be otherwise because of.

Answer 1

The correct answer is : the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the way people use intuition to evaluate probabilities. People start with a suggested reference that is implicit in the situation and then make adjustments to it to get into their estimate. It is also when they have an initial idea and having it as a starting point they adjust it according to their beliefs