Fred just purchased an expensive new refrigerator and is considering purchasing the overpriced warranty. In making his decision on the warranty, Fred ignores better ways that his money could be spent, including paying off high-interest credit card debt. According to prospect theory, the process that leads Fred to ignore the debt and buy the overpriced warranty is anchoring. confirmation bias. framing bias. mental accounting.

anchoring

Explanation:

In simple words, The anchoring phenomenon can be understood as the cognitive prejudice in which a single comparison source or 'anchor' influences a person's judgments. Following the setting of the anchoring number, a person 's future statements, estimations, and so on may differ from what things might have remained sans the anchor.

Thus, from the above we can conclude that the correct answer is anchor.

the density would be a smaller number.

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).