CSP 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic, Reno, Nevada

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

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Cognitive heuristic mental shortcut: they are generally adaptive but can lead to mistakes. Representativeness heuristic strategy of basing likelihood judgments on prototypes: conjunction error a subset of representativeness heuristic. When the combination of two events is thought to be more likely than two independent events: linda. Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Rank order the following seven descriptions in terms of the probability that they describe linda, from. Most probable (1) to least probable (7) ___4___ linda is a teacher in an elementary school. ___3___ linda works in a bookstore and takes yoga classes. ___1___ linda is active in the feminist movement. ___4___ linda is a psychiatric social worker. ___1___ linda is a member of the league of women voters. ___5___ linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.