Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience
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Author: E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher: Cengage Limited
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Representativeness heuristic is a mental shortcut that involves relying on the similarity between two instances, while ignoring the probability of the outcome, when making decisions. This heuristic often involves making judgments without considering the conjunction rule, which states that the probability of the conjunction of two events will always be less than the individual probability of the events that constitute it.

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