If You Guess That a Slender Young Woman Who Is

question 42

Multiple Choice

If you guess that a slender young woman who is soft-spoken and athletic is a ballet dancer, rather than a CEO of a Fortune-500 company, then you used which of the following in your judgment of her?

• A) a mental set
• B) confirmation bias
• C) the availability heuristic
• D) the representativeness heuristic

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