Marisa is trying to decide between two computers that are advertised at the same price. Both computers are the same in most respects; however, computer A has a 2.5 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM, while computer B has a slower 2.0 GHz processor but 512 MB of RAM. Because Marisa thinks that the speed of the processor matters more than the amount of RAM, she decides to buy computer A. In this case, Marisa has made her decision using
A) elimination by aspects.
B) a weighted decision strategy.
C) an analytic decision strategy.
D) the representativeness heuristic.

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Marisa has used a weighted decision strategy by assigning more importance to the processor speed than the amount of RAM in her decision-making process.

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