The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to
A) judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype.
B) judge the likelihood of an event in terms of how readily instances of its occurrence are remembered.
C) search for information that is consistent with our preconceptions.
D) cling to our initial conceptions,even though they have been discredited.
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