Lora watches a certain news network that is well known for its harshly negative portrayals of the followers of a specific religion. When she visits a university campus and meets followers of that religion, she has an immediate, negative response. Lora is using a(n) ____

a. ?representativeness heuristic
b. prototype?
c. ?fuzzy construct
d. ?archetype


ANSWER:
a

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