Although there are only a few runners on your college track team,you see a woman on campus who has the physique of a runner.You decide that she's a member of the track team.Your conclusion is based on

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The representativeness heuristic is the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event occurring based on how well it matches with one's preconceived stereotype or prototype of that event. In this scenario, the person is using the woman's physical appearance to make assumptions about her membership on the track team. This is an example of the representativeness heuristic.

Although There Are Only a Few Runners on Your College