The last time he ate bacon for breakfast Bobby became ill and was sick for three days with the flu. As a result, Bobby no longer eats bacon. He likely used __________ in making his decision.

A) the additive strategy
B) the representativeness heuristic
C) the availability heuristic
D) elimination by aspects

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Additive Strategy

A decision-making process in which alternatives are evaluated by summing up their attributes, giving more weighted attributes higher importance.

Elimination

The process of removing or getting rid of something, often used in biological contexts to refer to the expulsion of waste from the body.