Question

You read a description about a woman named Tyra, who happens to be extremely beautiful and almost six feet tall. You are asked to predict whether Tyra is a model or a science teacher. To do this, you think of your prototypes of a model and a science teacher, and decide that Tyra is a model. Your reasoning may be faulty due to

(A) an algorithm.
(B) framing.
(C) the availability heuristic.
(D) the representativeness heuristic.

Answer 1

Representative heuristics

Explanation:

Representative heuristics is the mental shortcuts that are used in making the decision and judgments. It is also called a thumb rule called heuristics. Many times we are in a hurry and we don't have time to compare all the information with the past information to make the choices. So the heuristics help us in making the decision quickly and instantly. But this type of decision leads to cognitive error or biases. This heuristics is specially making for the judgment when we compare the events with the pre-existing heuristics in our mind. Our prototype is the image that we already stored in our mind related to a specific events.