Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to:

a) the representativeness heuristic.
b) the availability heuristic.
c) divergent thinking.
d) the confirmation bias.


ANS: B, The availability heuristic is a strategy in which we judge objects or events as more likely, common, or frequent if they are easier to retrieve from memory

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