Blair watches the newscast each evening, with its usual diet of fires and other accidents. She often eats at Herby's Fried Snacks, a restaurant located in a brick building,

despite the fact that her eating there has resulted in bad indigestion several times. She avoids the well-respected Korean restaurant, because the Korean restaurant is in a wooden building. Blair's eating habits are probably being guided by ________.
A) the availability heuristic
B) an anti-Korean prejudice
C) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
D) an addiction to fried snacks
E) the representativeness heuristic


Answer: A

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