Question

Miss Jan De Jong is orderly, neat, fairly quiet, and shy. She enjoys reading in her spare time and belongs to a social club that includes three librarians, nine real estate agents, and eight social workers. A tendency to conclude that Jan must be one of the three librarians would illustrate the powerful influence of:___________.a. Confirmation bias

b. The framing effect
c. The representativeness heuristic
d. The belief perseverance phenomenon

Answer 1

Option C, The representativeness heuristic

Step-by-step explanation:

Representativeness heuristic is a form of bias in which it is common to confuse with similar people or object. Here in this case confusing Jan de is with the three librarians represent the mistake of believing that two similar things are closely related when they are not actually corelated.

Hence, option C is correct