You are relaxing at the beach when a young guy races noisily past you into the water. He is tanned, skinny with frizzy blond hair. You shrug your shoulders and, using the ________ heuristic, you just 'know' that he is an immature 'surfie'.

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The representativeness heuristic is used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty. In this scenario, the observer is using the young guy's appearance and behavior to categorize him as an immature 'surfie', which is a stereotype or representative image of such individuals.

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