GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Judging that a young person is more likely to be the instigator of an argument than an older person, because you believe younger people are more likely to start fights.
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Breaking a math story problem down into smaller, representative parts, in order to solve it.
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Judging a situation by a rule that is usually, but not always, true.
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Solving a problem with a rule that guarantees the right, more representative, answer
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Making a judgment according to past experiences that are most easily recalled, therefore representative of experience.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Representativeness Heuristic For example, if we watch TV and see numerous ads with a rugged man driving a pickup truck, we may conclude that pickup trucks are only for rugged men who work outdoors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples that employ heuristics include using trial and error, a rule of thumb or an educated guess.
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.