Jennifer Was Walking Along the Street When She Saw a Man

Multiple Choice

Jennifer was walking along the street when she saw a man run out of a convenience store clutching on to a bag.The owner of the store runs out and shouts for the man to stop and come back.Jennifer immediately assumes that there has been a robbery, not that the man was in a hurry and forgot his change.How did she fill in this gap in her knowledge of the situation?

A) She was using the base rate heuristic.
B) She considered self-fulfilling prophecies.
C) She was using racial profiling.
D) She was relying on a schema.