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Lyle was asked if more words start with the letter r, or have r as the third letter. Since he could think of more words that started with r, he concluded that must be the correct answer. Lyle's reasoning best illustrates

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availability heuristic

Step-by-step explanation:

According to Kahneman and Tversky, there are generally three distinct types of heuristics including anchoring and adjustment, availability, and representativeness.

Availability heuristic: In psychology, the term availability heuristic is referred to a person's mental shortcut that entirely depends on the immediate or sudden examples that come in his or her mind while figuring out a particular method, concept, decision, or topic.

In the question above, Lyle's reasoning best illustrates the availability heuristic.

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