The Representativeness Heuristic Is a Strategy For

question 82

Multiple Choice

The representativeness heuristic is a strategy for:

• A) judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily one can think of similar instances.
• B) deciding the likelihood of an event by how much it resembles a "typical" example of that event.
• C) overestimating one's skills and abilities as compared with others.
• D) searching for evidence that supports preexisting beliefs.

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