Melissa Is an Attractive Female Who Lives in San Diego

Multiple Choice

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

A) hindsight bias.
B) the representative heuristic.
C) base-rate decision making.
D) the conjunction fallacy.