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Representative Stereotypes: Personal Narrative
A representativeness heuristic is when an individual judges a situation based on a stereotype rather than on actual probability. An example of a representative heuristic that I have experienced from my own life experiences happened when I was playing basketball ball with some friends. While we were playing one of my female friends came and asked if she could play basketball with us. Because she was a female me and my friends wouldn’t let her play because we thought girls weren’t as good at sports as boys, and she wouldn’t be able to keep up, and paly as well as us.
Obviously me and my friends stereotyped against her just because she was a different gender, rather than on facts as we did not know whether or not she was good at sports. At the
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