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Heuristics are useful mental shortcuts but they also have drawbacks. What could be considered one disadvantage of using the availability heuristic?
a. People may give less weight to higher probability events compared with more vivid or scarier lower probability events.
b. Using the availability heuristic results in greater use of the base rate.
c. When using the availability heuristic people do not consider information about an individual’s personality.
d. The availability heuristic takes a great deal of controlled processing.
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ty for answering quickly and correctly
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