Question

Joanne does not go out at night because she hears from her local news station about the large number of muggings and robberies that occur in her city. However, crime in Joanne's city has actually gone down in the past few years. Joanne falling victim to:___________

A. the representativeness heuristic.
B. functional fixedness.
C. the availability heuristic.
D. confirmation bias.

Answer 1

C. the availability heuristic.

Step-by-step explanation:

Availability heuristic: In psychology, the term "availability heuristic" is also referred as "availability bias" and is described as a specific "mental shortcut" that completely depends on various prompt examples that generally comes in an individual's mind while evaluating a particular topic, decision, concept, or method, etc. Therefore, an individual makes a decision based on the available cues.

In the question above, Joanne falling victim to the availability heuristic.