Melissa Is an Attractive Woman Who Lives in San Diego

Multiple Choice

Melissa is an attractive woman who lives in San Diego and loves football.When asked to predict if it were probable that she was a schoolteacher or a cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers,most people selected the latter,even though there are more schoolteachers than there are Charger cheerleaders in San Diego.This is an illustration of:

A) hindsight bias.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) base-rate decision making.
D) the sunk-cost fallacy.