Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about the representativeness heuristic?
A) Ko-Eun: "We use the representativeness heuristic when we judge frequency in terms of how easily we can think of examples of a category."
B) Tianna: "The representativeness heuristic demonstrates that we initially make a guess,and then we make modest adjustments to that initial guess."
C) Brandon: "When using the representativeness heuristic,we overemphasize the base rate and don't pay enough attention to the availability heuristic."
D) Celia: "The representativeness heuristic typically works well,although we tend to ignore other relevant information that we should consider."
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