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Decision Making

Question 12 • LHS-Psychology (1 cr.)

Describe the difference between the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic.

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The availability heuristic is judging how likely an event is based on how easily examples of it come to mind. The representativeness heuristic is judging how likely something is based on how closely it resembles a typical example or category.