A reasoning heuristic in which we judge the likelihood of some event by deciding how much that event seems to be like the larger group or population from which it was drawn is a(n) __________

a. association heuristic
b. availability heuristic
c. normative heuristic
d. representativeness heuristic


Answer: d

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