Think of a farmer. The farmer gets up early every morning, throws huge bales of hay around to feed the livestock, puts shoes on horses, and drives a tractor. If you automatically picture a man instead of a woman, you may have fallen victim to the

A. confirmation bias.
B. anchoring heuristic.
C. representativeness heuristic.
D. multi-attribute hypothesis.


Answer: C

Psychology

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