The availability heuristic:
A) can cause individuals to overestimate the occurrence of unlikely events.
B) leads individuals to seek information that fits their point of view and to discount information that does not.
C) leads to initial information,impressions,data,feedback,or stereotypes anchoring subsequent judgments and decisions.
D) can make knowledge of an outcome influence beliefs about the probability that we could have predicted the outcome earlier.
E) creates a tendency to consider risks about gains differently than risks pertaining to losses.

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The availability heuristic is a cognitive bias where people overestimate the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory, often influenced by recent exposure or emotional impact, leading to overestimation of unlikely events.

The Availability Heuristic