Leslie visits her garden to discover that her tomatoes and beans have been eaten by an animal. Certain it’s a deer, she constructs a fence around the garden. A week later, the vegetables have been eaten again, so she installs an even taller fence. Leslie has not considered that an animal may be burrowing into her garden, likely because ____.?
a. ?she has ascribed too much utility to her initial solution
b. ?an availability heuristic has blocked her from considering another hypothesis
c. ?she did not apply logic before problem-solving
d. ?her original proposition was based on a false premise
ANSWER:
b
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