BIO SCI 45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Risk Assessment, Window Period
28 May 2016
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One judgment heuristic based on the starting point for an assessment and its effect on subsequent assessments. A term used to describe hiv testing situations in which the test results cannot be linked to an individual"s name. An individual"s overall evaluation of information regarding people, objects, or issues. One judgment heuristic based on the presence of an item or object in memory. The two main components of availability are familiarity and salience. A term used to describe hiv testing situations in which the results are linked to an individual"s name in an identifiable but protected way. An individual"s decision to act in a particular manner regarding a specific issue. Individualistic rules of thumb used in subjective probability models of decision making. A decision-making approach that uses probabilistic information according to statistical rules to reach conclusions. The tendency of an individual to believe that, compared with others, good things will happen to him or her and bad things will not happen.
