Question

Lola visits trish in weston, ct. at some point, lola asks trish whether there is a lot of crime in weston. although crime rarely occurs there, trish recalls a recent news story about a weston drug store robbery. on the basis of this memory, she then tells lola that there is a lot of crime in weston. this scenario illustrates reliance on the ____________ heuristic.

Answer 1

The scenario that is depicting in the scenario above illustrates the reliance on the availability heuristic. The availability heuristic is where indviduals mostly relies on the thoughts or examples that is already laid out or come to them in which we can see in the scenario above.