Question

Hillary meets her brother's friend Drake, who is a tall, lanky man. She concludes that Drake might be a basketball player for his college team. According to the biases and heuristics in decision making, it can be concluded that Hillary mirrors ________ in this scenario.

Answer 1

Answer:

representativeness heuristic  

Explanation:

Representativeness heuristic: It is defined as evaluating similarity of different objects and arranging them on the basis of the category prototype, for example, the cause and effect should relate to each other. The computation of Representativeness heuristic is easy. This is a type of mental shortcut that makes decisions by evaluation of any specific information to the mental prototypes.

According to the biases and heuristics in decision making, it can be concluded that Hillary mirrors representativeness heuristic in this scenario in the question above.