COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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To determine whether someone is a lawyer, I compare his traits to the “average” lawyer
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To determine whether something is safe, I recall a vivid news story from the night before.
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I take a step by step, methodical approach when determining the answer.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Representativeness heuristics are biased judgments made in everyday life. An example of a representativeness heuristic is thinking that because someone is wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase, that they must be a lawyer, because they look like the stereotype of a lawyer.
Detailed explanation-2: -The representativeness heuristic is a shortcut that we use when attempting to estimate the odds of something being true, such as whether an interview profile came from a lawyer or an engineer.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the representativeness heuristic? The representativeness heuristic is a mental shortcut that we use when estimating probabilities. When we’re trying to assess how likely a certain event is, we often make our decision by assessing how similar it is to an existing mental prototype.
Detailed explanation-4: -Availability heuristic is more focused on memories of specific instances (i.e., accidents, winning the lottery, etc.). As for representative heuristic, the memories have more to do with stereotypes, prototypes, or averages (i.e., careers, race, etc.; Lempert, 2022).