Making a Decision Based on Ease of Retrieval of Relevant

question 78

Multiple Choice

Making a decision based on ease of retrieval of relevant examples from memory (e.g.,the "words with K in the first/third position" example) is __________.This is an informal approach that can be extremely useful in many situations,but it sometimes produces the wrong answer.

• A)representativeness heuristic
• B)Bayes' theorem
• C)availability heuristic
• D)all of the above

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