In your book's example, you read a list of names and then tried to recall how many started with J; if you tended to overestimate the number of "J names," it was probably due to the effects of _______ on the use of the _______ heuristic

a) frequency; availability
b) familiarity; availability
c) stereotyping; representativeness
d) salience; representativeness


Answer: b

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