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Unit 5 – Cognitive Psychology
Topic 5.8
How does understanding the heuristic called availability bias help public health professionals improve communication about rare diseases?
Availability bias only helps professionals to make faster diagnoses, not improve health communication strategies.
Acknowledging availability bias helps professionals craft messages that counteract people’s tendency to overestimate disease prevalence based on memorable or recent cases, thereby improving health communication accuracy.
Understanding availability bias cannot aid public health professionals as this heuristic doesn't apply to perceptions about diseases or disorders.
Availability heuristic is irrelevant because it deals primarily with business decision-making rather than health communication about rare diseases.
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AP Psychology - 5.8 Biases and Errors in Thinking
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