Gabrielle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If we judge the probability of Gabrielle's being a model quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using
A. the representativeness heuristic.
B. the availability heuristic.
C. framing.
D. the law of small numbers.
Answer: A
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