Gita hears a description of a person who sounds very much like an engineer.Even if Gita knows that the person goes to a college where engineering is a very unpopular degree,he is still likely to believe that the person is an engineer.This is an example of the:

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This scenario is an example of the representativeness heuristic, where Gita is making judgments or assumptions based on how similar the person's description is to her prototype or stereotype of an engineer, regardless of the actual likelihood of the person being an engineer.

Gita Hears a Description of a Person Who Sounds Very