Question 4 Despite the obvious prompt given in the format of the item, students

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Question 4 Despite the obvious prompt given in the format of the item, students are likely to believe that "ing endings are more common. That's because, when thinking about this question, most students are likely to generate examples of each class of items. As they mentally recite gerunds (running. umping. skipping. flying. working. eating they should find that it is much easier to generate those examples than it is examples of words that have "n" as the second-to-last letter (friend," "end. "mend.um.Which heuristic are students(misusing when attempting to determine which type of words are more common? Working Backwards from the Goal Means Ends Analysis Ropresentativeness Heuristic Availability Heuristic

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The correct answer is Option D. The students are using the availability heuristic because they use a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

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