Answer: Representativeness heuristics can be defined a method of judgement that is based on comparison of like events or based on parents events,it assumed like events should be grouped together and that similar events will have similar outcomes .
Irrelevant details can influence Representativeness.
Tversky and kahneman studied cab accident and Tom Lewis a personality to demonstrate the validity of Representativeness
Conjunction fallacy is the error of judgement that assume that the probability of occurrence of a conjunction of events cannot be greater than that of any of the individual event
Tversky and kahneman commit a conjunction fallacy.
Explanation: Representativeness heuristics based is a judgement based on what similarities the event has with a similar events,it tends to ignore bases rate and other coignitive bases hence it is prone to error most times.its popularly embraced,because provides a short cut to decision making but
often wrong.
B) irrelevant details can cause influence Representativeness , for instance assuming that eating fatty food can make one fat.
C) the demonstration used was a cab accident ,in the town there are 80%blue cab and 20%green cab and a witness claimed he saw a blue cab caused the accident,using the theory,most of the participants picked judged that a blue cab caused the accident probability ranging from 50% to over 80%.
Conjunction fallacy is the probability that assume that the conjunction of two events occuring cannot be up the probability of one of the events occuring eg if a man may be a
boxer and maybe muscular ,the conjunction between the two is assume to be less than any one of the two and this may not be true from findings from base theories.and this why we say that tversky and kahneman commit a conjunction fallacy especially with it's study on Tom Lewis and course of study likely to be studied by him.
