Question

A televised image of a starving polar bear surrounded by melting icebergs had a greater impact on Mr. Young’s perception of the extensiveness of climate change than did a statistical chart summarizing the earth’s temperature over the last two hundred years. This suggests that Mr. Young’s assessment of the climate change issue is influenced by:

the representativeness heuristic
confirmation bias
fixation
the availability heuristic
overconfidence

Answer 1

The representativeness heuristic, Fixation, Confirmation bias, and The availability heuristic.