Max, an attorney, is attending a hearing at the federal courthouse. He opens the courthouse door for a young woman with a tattoo on her forearm. When Max enters the room of the hearing, he is stunned to see that the assigned judge is the same woman. Max had applied the ____.

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Max applied the representativeness heuristic, which involves judging the likelihood of something based on how much it resembles a typical case, leading him to assume the woman with the tattoo was not a judge.

Max, an Attorney, Is Attending a Hearing at the Federal