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A televised image of a starving polar bear surrounded by melting icebergs had a greater impact on Mr. Young’s perception of the extensiveness of climate change than did a statistical chart summarizing the earth’s temperature over the last two hundred years. This suggests that Mr. Young’s assessment of the climate change issue is influenced by:

the representativeness heuristic
confirmation bias
fixation
the availability heuristic
overconfidence

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I believe the answer is Representativeness Heuristic, but I do not know for sure.
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