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.


a

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