For each question, indicate which heuristic it describes:
-Inner city crime in the U.S.gets considerable media coverage,such that every homicide is reported in the news.In contrast,a story of a person who died from a heart attack rarely makes the news.This leads people to overestimate the frequency of deaths due to homicides relative to those due to heart failure.
A)The representativeness heuristic.
B)The availability heuristic.
C)The confirmation heuristic.
D)The affect heuristic.

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This describes the availability heuristic, where people rely on the ease of retrieving information in their memory to make judgments about frequency or likelihood. The media coverage of homicides makes them more readily available in people's minds, leading to an overestimation of their frequency compared to heart failure deaths.

For Each Question, Indicate Which Heuristic It Describes