Lyle was asked if more words start with the letter r, or have r as the third letter. since he could think of more words that started with r, he concluded that must be the correct answer. lyle's reasoning best illustrates
a. the representativeness heuristic.
b. confirmation bias.
c. a mental set.
d. the availability heuristic.
e. a fixation

d.the availability heuristic.

Explanation:

According to my research on studies conducted by various psychologists, I can say that based on the information provided within the question Lyle's reasoning best illustrates the availability heuristic. This term refers to a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. Since Lyle concluded that as the correct answer because an example immediately popped into his mind then we can say that the correct answer to this question is D.

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