Multiple Choice
In an experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1973) , subjects were given a description of a young man, Steve, who closely resembles a typical librarian, and were told that the description was drawn from a pool of 100 men, 10 of whom were librarians. Subjects assumed that Steve is a librarian. This is an example of:
A) the availability heuristic
B) the representativeness heuristic
C) an illusory correlation
D) the false consensus effect
E) the simulation heuristic
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