What Are Eliciting Devices

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Essay

What are eliciting devices?

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Definitions:

Representativeness Heuristic

A strategy for judging whether an individual, object, or event belongs in a certain category based on how typical of the category it seems to be.

Typical

Representing the characteristics or qualities of a particular group, category, or class; characteristic.

Frequency Judgment

The process of estimating the rate at which an event occurs or the likelihood of its occurrence.

Availability

The extent to which a resource or service can be used or obtained.