Schwarz and Colleagues (1991) Asked Participants to Recall 12 or 6

Schwarz and colleagues (1991) asked participants to recall 12 or 6 examples of when they had been either assertive or unassertive. It was found that participants who recalled 6 examples of their own assertive behaviour subsequently rated themselves as more assertive than people who had recalled 12 examples of their own assertive behaviour. Such results demonstrate the use of which heuristic?

A) the availability heuristic
B) the false-consensus effect
C) the representativeness heuristic
D) the anchoring heuristic