"You always clam up when I ask you what's wrong," Iris tells her boyfriend.Iris is probably making this frequency judgment because she can remember a few times when her boyfriend wouldn't tell her what was bothering him.Iris is using the ___ heuristic.
A) representativeness
B) availability
C) frequency
D) confirmation

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Iris is using the availability heuristic, which involves estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common.

"You Always Clam Up When I Ask You What's Wrong