Question

Auriele is a very attractive female who lives in Cleveland and loves American football. When asked to predict if it is more probable that she is a schoolteacher or a cheerleader for the Cleveland Browns, most people selected the latter even though there are thousands of more schoolteachers than cheerleaders for the Browns in Cleveland. This illustrates the fallacy in reasoning known as: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. availability heuristic. mental set. the representativeness heuristic. the confirmation bias.

Answer 1

the representativeness heuristic.

Step-by-step explanation:

Representativeness heuristic prejudice happens when objects or events similarity confuses people's thinking about the likelihood of a result.

Individuals sometimes naively believe that there are two similar things or incidents closer to each other than they really are.

This heuristic representationality is a common error in the processing of information in behavioral finance theory.