Across
- 3. Reasoning, Avery knows that dark and cloudy skies usually mean thunderstorms, so she concludes that it is going to rain today.
- 7. Effect, Everyone loves Travis and thinks he is very trustworthy because he is tall, muscular, and handsome.
- 9. Ellen hears the word “shark” and immediately pictures a large gray fish with sharp teeth and a white underbelly.
- 13. Fallacy, Joe flips a coin and gets heads and thinks the next time he flips the coin it probably won’t land on heads again.
- 14. Belinda is having trouble picking out a new shampoo brand, so she picks the most popular one with the best reviews.
- 15. Jake thinks he is a great songwriter, so he releases a song even though he had never previously written a song.
- 16. Bias, Greg is trying to convince Stacy that vaping is healthy and uses statistics from an e-cigarette company to argue his point.
- 17. Connor is trying to decide whether it would be more effective to annotate the text or read the questions first when he takes his reading test tomorrow.
- 19. Bias, Patrick exclaims that he knew she would win the election after the results of the poll were announced.
Down
- 1. Fallacy, Harry bought a pair of really expensive pants, which ripped, but he still wore them because they cost a lot.
- 2. Heuristic, Jack sees a woman in a pantsuit with designer accessories yelling at someone over the phone and determines that she is probably the CEO of some major corporation.
- 4. Perseverance, John thinks he is great at physics, and even after failing several physics tests he still thinks he is great at physics.
- 5. Robert repeats the moves [R’, U, R, U] until his Rubik’s cube is solved.
- 6. Heuristic, Bob just heard about an accident with a person falling into a lion enclosure and is suddenly afraid to go to the zoo.
- 8. Fixedness, John has a mirror on his phone case because he doesn’t realize he can use the front camera on his phone as a mirror and not just to take pictures. (John looks like a fool)
- 10. Effect, Taylor finds a motorcycle he likes for $20,000, but then he finds another motorcycle for $15,000 and he thinks it is really cheap even though a cheap motorcycle typically costs $4,000.
- 11. Effect, John thinks he is great at calculus and makes sure to insufferably mansplain it to everyone even though he has only taken an entry-level class.
- 12. Reasoning, Tricia observes a chipmunk digging a small hole outside and assumes that it is responsible for all the destruction in her yard.
- 18. Set, Tom doesn’t study for an upcoming test because he didn’t study last time and got a 100.