Veronica is at a supermarket and wants to buy some yogurt. She goes directly to the aisle where the supermarket keeps its dairy products because she believes that she is more likely to find yogurt there. She ignores all the other aisles in the supermarket. This is an example of ________.
A. the observer-expectancy effect
B. clustering bias
C. the availability heuristic
D. the decoy effect
Answer: C
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word