A Student Who Works at a Record Store and Plays

question 89

Multiple Choice

A student who works at a record store and plays in a rock band thinks for a minute about his own music-purchasing habits,and then makes a quick guess about the number of other students who buy more than 30 CDs a year.He grossly overestimates.He has probably applied the

• A) availability heuristic.
• B) representativeness heuristic.
• C) primacy heuristic.
• D) anchoring and adjustment heuristic.

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