Suppose that henry meets a woman who opposes the death penalty. From this, Henry decides that women are more likely than our men to oppose the death penalty. Henry assumes that the individual case is typical of its category. Henry has fallen prey to:
A) The confirmation bias
B) functional fixedness
C) The representativeness heuristic
D) the framing effect
Ans: C) The representativeness heuristic
Psychology
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