Shawn decides to reject invitations to parties that will be held at night because he reads in the newspaper about the large numb
er of robberies that take place in his neighborhood. However, the crime rate at Shawn's neighborhood has actually reduced in the last two years. Shawn's decision is based onA. confirmation bias. B. the representativeness heuristic.
C. the availability heuristic.
D. functional fixedness.
This heuristic takes place when a person reccurs to immediately available, usually recent information in order to judge a situation or take a decision.
In the example, Shawn believes the neighborhood is dangerous because <u>he has just read about it</u>. Also, that is probably the only <u>available</u> information he possesses about that neighborhood.
The colonists were unhappy with the way things were going. Each new tax was more of a burden than before and they eventually god fed up with it, which resulted with the Boston Tea Party, and the rest is history.
