Question

The __________ heuristic is the tendency people have to place inordinate weight on easily recalled events and memorable personal experiences in their deliberations.

Answer 1

Question Options:

A. deliberations.

B. Representativeness

C. Salience

D. availability

Answer: The AVAILABILITY heuristic.

Explanation: The availability heuristic also known as the availability bias can be defined as an unrecognized tendency of decision-makers to give preference to recent information, vivid images that evoke emotions, and specific acts and behaviors that they personally observed. It is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate information that comes to mind when evaluating a topic.

Answer 2

The correct answer is availability

The availability heuristic is a brain process, in which the human mind defines the probability of an event happening based on how easily it remembers a similar event to have happened in the past.

It is a mechanism developed since primitive times, in which man lived in the midst of wild nature and needing possibilities was not an exact science.

In modern times, even, the heuristic of availability also arises in the face of issues of difficult immediate precision.