Which decision-making strategy involves making judgments of likelihood based on how well an example represents a specific category?

A) an algorithm
B) goal-state analysis
C) the representativeness heuristic
D) the availability heuristic


Answer: C
Rationale: This is the definition of the representativeness heuristic.

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