Question

​A young woman decided not to attend a college after noticing a student wearing unfashionable shoes during a campus tour. This woman was using the representativeness heuristic by assuming that

Answer 1

This woman assumed that the student's shoes define how the student is, how he behaves, how his personality is.

Step-by-step explanation:

Representativity heuristic is the name given to a mental phenomenon in which, faced with the need to make a decision of relative complexity, the human being relies on his personal repertoire to judge a thing, person or situation.

The heuristic of representativeness is considered above all a shortcut to reasoning. When we have limited information on an issue, we seek similar conditions experienced in the past and bring them to the present moment as the basis for our judgment. Thus we avoid, at the same time, the tiredness of reflection and the anguish of ignorance.

Answer 2

The woman was using the representativeness heuristic by assuming that the sample that has represented the larger population by which the woman decided that she does not want to go to school after seeing someone who is wearing unfashionably where she thinks that all of the students residing in the school is just as the same as the person who is wearing unfashionably.