When people need to make a decision involving a high degree of uncertainty, what techniques do they often use to estimate the probability of an event occurring?
A)the trial-and-error strategy and the additive model
B)the elimination-by-aspects model and the single-feature model
C)the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
D)insight, intuition, mental sets, and pure guesswork

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The availability heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of an event based on how easily instances of that event come to mind. The representativeness heuristic involves making judgments based on how closely the event matches the stereotypical or prototypical representation of that event. These heuristics are often used to estimate the probability of uncertain events. The other options (A, B, D) do not involve specific techniques that are commonly used to estimate probability.

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