People Often Overestimate the Likelihood of Death by Shark Attack

Multiple Choice

People often overestimate the likelihood of death by shark attack, plane crash, and violence, because news programs emphasize these extreme occurrences to drive up ratings. Your tendency to readily recall such instances even though they are objectively rare is the result of the:

A) representativeness heuristic.
B) better-than-average effect.
C) confirmation bias.
D) availability heuristic.