Question

Suppose you meet a woman who killed her stepdaughter, and then later when you meet another woman who is having trouble with her stepdaughter, you are most likely to think that this woman too will kill her stepdaughter. You come to this conclusion as a result of: select one:

a. Functional fixedness.
b. The representativeness heuristic.
c. The availability heuristic.
d. Confirmation bias.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: the representativeness heuristic.

Representativeness heuristic refers to the mental shortcut that we make to make judgement when we are under uncertain situation. We do this by assessing the situation and noticing same factors that exist in similar situation that we experience in the past.