Brutus believes that men enjoy watching professional football and that women are categorically distinct from men. His gender stereotypes are so strong, however, that he mistakenly reasons from these premises the illogical conclusion that women do not enjoy watching professional football. His reasoning difficulty best illustrates:

a. the framing effect.

b. the availability heuristic.

c. belief bias.

d. functional fixedness.

The correct answer is c. Belief Bias

Explanation:

Belief bias is defined as a tendency to judge the arguments based merely in the plausibility of the conclusion and not because of the strenght of the arguments that leads to that conclusion, in this case, Brutus is not reasoning the premises and mistakenly ignores the logical chain because of his strong gender stereotypes and end up in a belief bias mainly because of them and not taking other factor that might prove his original and biased belief wrong.