People Typically Believe That Fires Cause More Deaths, but Statistics

Multiple Choice

People typically believe that fires cause more deaths, but statistics reveal that drowning actually causes significantly more deaths than fire. Some researchers argue that we make this error because TV news programs show much more footage of fires than drowning, because fires are more exciting to televise. This presumably makes it much easier for us to call up examples of death by fire. This particular finding is best considered as an example of a judgment error caused by

A) a mental set
B) a confirmation bias
C) the availability heuristic
D) the representativeness heuristic