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; may lead one to ignore other relevant information.

Detailed explanation-3: -Availability Heuristic: estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Representativeness Heuristic is the tendency to use similarity between objects to categorize them. We use looks, behavior, dressing style and other factors as shortcuts to create stereotypes.