The anchoring effect has been shown to be influenced by ______ and the _____.
A) Availability: confirmation bias
B) satisficing: heuristics
C) Cue saliency: primacy effect
D) biases: utility

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The anchoring effect is influenced by cue saliency, which refers to the prominence or attention-grabbing quality of a particular piece of information. This can be seen in the primacy effect, where the first piece of information presented has a stronger impact on subsequent judgments or decisions.

The Anchoring Effect Has Been Shown to Be Influenced by ______