When Becky meets her new roommate, she sees that she has her hair dyed blue and has decorated her side of the room with lots of handmade ceramic pots and paintings. She then assumes that her roommate has multiple piercings and listens to punk rock. She has used the __________ heuristic in making this assumption.

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The representativeness heuristic involves making judgments about the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches our prototypes or schemas. In this case, Becky is using her schema of someone with blue hair, ceramic pots, and paintings to make assumptions about her roommate's personality and interests. This is an example of the representativeness heuristic.

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