AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -representativeness heuristic. The tendency to conclude that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor of classics than a construction worker illustrates the use of: the representativeness heuristic.

Detailed explanation-2: -confirmation bias, people’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional, and it results in a person ignoring information that is inconsistent with their beliefs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The four common types of heuristics include affect, anchoring, availability, and representativeness.

Detailed explanation-4: -The three heuristics that received most attention were availability, representativeness, and anchoring and adjustment. The availability heuristic refers to the tendency to assess the probability of an event based on the ease with which instances of that event come to mind.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fundamental Attribution Error-The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences upon others’ behavior.