Collette skipped all of her physics classes since the last exam and did not study for her exam. During the exam, she did not understand the majority of the questions and decided to answer by selecting the answer choice containing the greatest number of terms that she thought looked familiar. In this example, Collette's decision was guided by the

A. recognition heuristic.
B. availability heuristic.
C. affect heuristic.
D. representativeness heuristic.


Answer: A

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