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 2 G of RAM,while computer B has a slower 2.0 GHz processor but 4 G 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 used a weighted decision strategy by assigning a higher weight to the processor speed and a lower weight to the amount of RAM, leading her to choose computer A despite having less RAM.

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