Multiple Choice
For each question, indicate which heuristic it describes:
-Inner city crime in the U.S.gets considerable media coverage,such that every homicide is reported in the news.In contrast,a story of a person who died from a heart attack rarely makes the news.This leads people to overestimate the frequency of deaths due to homicides relative to those due to heart failure.
A) The representativeness heuristic.
B) The availability heuristic.
C) The confirmation heuristic.
D) The affect heuristic.
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