In the 1980s and 1990s, Many People Became Concerned That

Multiple Choice

In the 1980s and 1990s, many people became concerned that Satanic cults were abducting and abusing people, although no good evidence supported this claim. Some clinicians began to conduct workshops warning other clinicians about the dangers of Satanic ritual abuse and explaining how to identify repressed memories of Satanic ritual abuse they might observe. After much media attention, some clinicians began to identify many more cases of repressed memory of Satanic ritual abuse. The MOST likely reason for this great increase is that clinicians were making judgments based on the:

A) representativeness heuristic.
B) effects of contamination in their thinking.
C) availability heuristic.
D) anchoring and adjustment heuristic.