8: The tendency to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs, termed the
  overconfidence phenomenon, can be remedied by

    C. Learning about the base-rate fallacy.

    Incorrect.
The base rate fallacy which is defined by Myers as "the tendency to ignore or under use base-rate information (information that describes most people) and instead to be influenced by distinctive features of the case being judged," is not related to the overconfidence phenomenon.  The base-rate fallacy is much more closely related to the representativeness heuristic (see Myers, pg. 110).
 


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