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What are the representative heuristic and availability heuristic?
Student Name: Jane Jung

Heuristic is a mental process of making judgments and decisions quickly without spending a lot of time on analyzing and researching the information. Representative heuristic, one of the types of heuristics, is a mental shortcut that we use to make decisions and judgments using the information in our mental prototype or past experiences. An example of a representative heuristic is when you think of a grandmother as you hear the description of 'an older mother as warm and caring with a great love of children'. Availability heuristic, one of the other types of heuristics, is a mental shortcut where we make decisions by how quickly and easily examples come to mind. The problem with availability heuristic is that the example that comes first to the mind may not be always correct.



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Comment: Name: Angela Tan <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Date: February 5, 2015

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jane, I really liked the way you described the two types of heuristics and even gave an example for representative heuristics. In representative heuristics, our over-judgement of the likelihood of something also leads us to ignore other statistical and logic considerations. We tend to forget to compare some information that might have lead to another possibility of a question, and these ignorance can lead to errors and confirmation bias. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Various factors such as frequency and memory also affects our availability heuristic on certain things. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Overall, good job Jane. You answer was simple and easy to understand.

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