CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The representativeness heuristic is a mental shortcut for judging the probability of an outcome in terms of how well it seems to represent or match a particular prototype.

Detailed explanation-2: -Representativeness Heuristic: Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The representativeness heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype that already exists in our minds. This prototype is what we think is the most relevant or typical example of a particular event or object.

Detailed explanation-4: -Revised on January 9, 2023. The availability heuristic occurs when we judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily we can recall similar events. If we can vividly remember instances of that event, we deem it to be more common than it actually is.

Detailed explanation-5: -A prototype heuristic is the label for the process of substituting an attribute of a prototype for an extensional at-tribute of its category (Kahneman & Frederick, 2002).