Your text mentions a young woman who headed home before finishing a college tour after noticing a student who was wearing unfashionable shoes. This woman was using the representativeness heuristic by assuming that
a. a sample represented the larger population.
b. easily recalled examples represented more prevalent categories. c. more people agreed with her than actually did.
d. her point of view was unique.
e. her initial hypothesis was correct despite evidence against it.
a
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