The representativeness heuristic assumes that which of these is true?
a. Something that resembles members of a category is also a member of the category.
b. The most expensive member of a category is probably the one of highest quality.
c. An unfamiliar item probably belongs to a common category, not a less common one.
d. If you can easily think of examples of an event, it must be a common event.
a
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