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Diane

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Heuristics are useful mental shortcuts but they also have drawbacks. What could be considered one disadvantage of using the representativeness heuristic?
◦ When using the representativeness heuristic people do not consider information about an individual's personality.
◦ The representativeness heuristic takes a great deal of controlled processing.
◦ Using the representativeness heuristic may lead to neglecting other important information such as the base rate.
◦ Using the representativeness heuristic leads to greater use of the base rate.
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Reply #1 on: Oct 28, 2020
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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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