The Availability Heuristic

question 48

Multiple Choice

The availability heuristic

• A)is a time-consuming strategy,so it is employed by participants only when a judgment requires special care.
• B)leads us to overestimate frequency if category members are particularly difficult to remember.
• C)leads us to underestimate frequency because there are usually more category members beyond the ones we recall.
• D)often,but not always,leads to correct estimates because availability in memory is often correlated with frequency in the world.

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