Lola visits trish in weston, ct. at some point, lola asks trish whether there is a lot of crime in weston. although crime rarely occurs there, trish recalls a recent news story about a weston drug store robbery. on the basis of this memory, she then tells lola that there is a lot of crime in weston. this scenario illustrates reliance on the heuristic.
a. representativeness
b. availability
c. recollection
d. anchoring

Availability Heuristics

Explanation:

Availability heuristics is a judgment that people make about the likelihood of an event-based that easily an example case comes to in mind. For example, the investor may judge the quality investment based on information that published the last day in a newspaper rather than based on facts. The availability heuristic is described our tendency to think that whatever is easy for us to call should provide the context for future predictions. We make our decision is based on what we remember. we assume our memory is a representative sample of reality. It discounts the events that come in mind from outside. we all believe only that is commonly quite.

taking a bath requires the most water out of the given options because it takes a significant amount of water in order to fill a bathtub.

answer; disconfirm the catharsis theory;