The Danger of Using the Representativeness Heuristic Is That It

question 96

Multiple Choice

The danger of using the representativeness heuristic is that it may lead us to

• A)make judgments in a very inefficient,time-consuming fashion.
• B)judge event likelihood solely on the basis of event memorability.
• C)disregard information that is relevant to our judgments.
• D)judge objects only in terms of their functional utility.

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