Over break, your parents ask you if you can think of 12 reasons why your college is better than its archrival. you find it hard to come up with so many reasons and so end up thinking, "hmmm, maybe the schools aren't all that different." which of the following mental strategies did you probably use to reach this conclusion?
a) the representativeness heuristic
b) base rate information
c) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
d) the availability heuristic
e) counterfactual thinking

d) the availability heuristic

Explanation:

There are many ways in which we take short means to understand something as fast as we can. When we want to understand something but depend on what comes to mind first in order to understand it that is know as availability heuristic.

Let us say you want to decide on something many things come to mind all at once in your mind and you end up thinking these are frequent event when compared to others. You end up overestimating the probability of that thing happening again in the future. So what ever comes to mind at that moment you make conclusion based on it.

there is an explationation of this on a site called crash   course world history 1

the minoan civilization flourished in the middle bronze age on the island of crete located in the eastern mediterranean from c. 2000 bce until c. 1500 bce. with their unique art and architecture, and the spread of their ideas through contact with other cultures across the aegean, the minoans made a significant contribution to the development of western european civilization as it is known today. labyrinth-like palace complexes, vivid frescoes depicting scenes such as bull-leaping and processions, fine gold jewelry, elegant stone vases, and pottery with vibrant decorations of marine life are all particular features of minoan crete.  

so basically their unique way of ding arts, as well as architecture.