Judith Is a Third-Year Undergraduate Student Who Lists Her Interests

Multiple Choice

Judith is a third-year undergraduate student who lists her interests as computer gaming, and online communities. Based on this description, you might assume that Judith is more likely to be a computer science major than a psychology major because you think those interests are more common among computer science majors. On your campus, there are very few computer science majors, and a lot of psychology majors. Your judgment is likely based on the __________ heuristic but might be wrong due to the __________.

A) availability; base rate fallacy
B) representative; overconfidence bias
C) availability; overconfidence bias
D) representative; base rate fallacy