Self-Check Questions Erin Potts Section 10.1

• Define enabler.. Anything that assist in the creation of mass effects. It can be an institution or a process that makes it possible for the mass effect to occur when it would not have occurred otherwise.
• T/F Post-materialists are people who are concerned with personal survival.
• List examples of heuristics. Representativeness heuristic: this involves assessing the probability of an unknown even on the basis of how it represents an event we know. Availability heuristic: The probability or an event is assessed by how clearly we can imagine events like it. Vividness heuristic: Events that contain vivid descriptions or images are often viewed, as more probable than those that are more abstract.
• Prior to 9/11, what did FEMA believe...