Steve is trying to determine whether it will rain this Saturday.He quickly remembers that it has rained the past three Saturdays.If he uses this information to make his decision,
He will be using
A) framing.
B) insight.
C) the representativeness heuristic.
D) the availability heuristic.

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Steve is using the availability heuristic because he is basing his prediction on the ease with which he can recall instances of it raining on Saturdays, which is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind.

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