The Availability Heuristic

question 45

Multiple Choice

The availability heuristic:

• A) is a time-consuming strategy, so 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 leads to correct estimates because availability in memory is often correlated with frequency in the world

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