Noah Is Asked If There Are More Poodles or Dalmatians

question 3

Multiple Choice

Noah is asked if there are more poodles or dalmatians in America.He can quickly think of more examples of poodles than dalmatians because there are lots of poodles in his neighborhood,but not many dalmatians.He estimates that there are more poodles.Noah has most likely used

• A) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
• B) the false consensus effect.
• C) the representativeness heuristic.
• D) the availability heuristic.

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