Question

Hillary meets her brother’s friend Drake who is a tall and lanky man. She concludes that Drake might be a basketball player for his college team. According to the biases and heuristics in decision making, it can be concluded that Hillary mirrors _____ in this scenario.

Answer 1

Answer: Representativeness heuristic

Explanation: Representativeness heuristic is the mechanism that describe about categorizing the things on the basis of similarity of product .The factors considered for organizing the prototype is based on resemblance, similarity etc.

Hillary is assuming that Drake is basketball player by evaluating him on the factor of his tall height and lanky personality which is usually found in the basketball players. Thus,representativeness heuristic is used by Hillary in this case.