Your roommate is interested in dating Chris, whom you know from a history class. Your roommate asks if you think Chris is genera
lly a considerate person.You remember how Chris lent you notes when you missed class last week, and tell your roommate you think Chris is very considerate. In making your judgment, you have relied upon the ________ heuristic.a) Representativenessb) base ratec) availabilityd) counterfactual thinking
Heuristics are the mental representation and shortcuts that are responsible for navigating the world very easily as soon as possible. Many heuristics are very important and very efficient to help a person in a situation so can decide without making so many efforts in understanding all piece of information. It is the shortcut of getting the answer and respond quickly but sometimes it loses the accuracy of the task. In availability heuristics, it has been described that the reasoning and decision of a person have been influenced by the comfort of fetching something into mind. For example, if we asked the student to rate a university on behalf of safety 1 to 5 and if the student gets notification about the armed robbery then they will respond poor and if they get some response after a month then availability is low so respond high.
A 0 on Kinsey’s Sexual Orientation Scale would determine that the test taker is exclusively heterosexual. This means that he or she is and only is physically and sexually attracted to people of opposite sex. No signs of homosexuality is seen with people on this scale.
