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. D) the belief perseverance phenomenon.
B) the framing effect. E) the availability heuristic.
C) the representativeness heuristic.

Answer 1

C) the representativeness heuristic.

Step-by-step explanation:

Representativeness heuristic: In psychology, the term representativeness heuristic is referred to as the phenomenon which involves categorizing or organizing different objects based on the object's similarity assessment and within the category prototype, for example, cause and effects complement each other. The representativeness heuristic involves an easy computation and therefore referred to as a mental shortcut.

In the question above, the given statement represents the powerful influence of the representativeness heuristic.