Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence is called belief perseverance. framing. confirmation bias. the availability heuristic.
Choice (d) is the most correct. This would be an example of the availability heuristic. When a person can easily recall an event similar to another, we tend to think the second event happens much more often than it likely does. The fact that we have mental shortcuts that allow this to happen is the mechanism behind our misjudgments.
