If asked, "Which is more probable? A.Professional golfer Adam Scott will not be in the lead after the first round of golf at the tournament but will win the tournament.B.Professional golfer Adam Scott will not be in the lead after the first round of golf of a tournament." Most people would answer A, although A is less likely to be true than B.According to Tversky and Kahneman, such faulty conclusions are based on
A) the representativeness heuristic.
B) convergent thinking.
C) divergent thinking.
D) the framing effect.

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The representativeness heuristic leads people to judge the probability of an event by how much it resembles what they consider to be a typical example, causing them to overlook actual probabilities.

If Asked, "Which Is More Probable? A