a young woman decided not to attend a college after noticing a student wearing unfashionable shoes during a campus tour. this woman was using the representativeness heuristic by assuming that

This woman assumed that the student's shoes define how the student is, how he behaves, how his personality is.

Explanation:

Representativity heuristic is the name given to a mental phenomenon in which, faced with the need to make a decision of relative complexity, the human being relies on his personal repertoire to judge a thing, person or situation.

The heuristic of representativeness is considered above all a shortcut to reasoning. When we have limited information on an issue, we seek similar conditions experienced in the past and bring them to the present moment as the basis for our judgment. Thus we avoid, at the same time, the tiredness of reflection and the anguish of ignorance.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.