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Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence is called:_______.

a) framing effect.
b) confirmation bias.
c) representativeness heuristic.
d) availability heuristic.

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D - Availability heuristic.

Step-by-step explanation:

As the exercese briefly explains, availability heuristic is the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence. This is like a mental shortcut in which, for example, when asked about a person we will tend to weigh our judgments towards the most recent piece of information we gathered or, when evaluating a decision, the immediate examples that comes to mind. All in all, this explains how we tend to immediatly think of several examples when we think about something in particular.

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