Question

Suppose that Henry meets a woman who opposes the death penalty. From this, Henry decides that women are more likely than are men to oppose the death penalty. Henry assumes that the individual case is typical of its category. Henry has fallen prey to:

Answer 1

Answer:

The representativeness heuristic.

Explanation:

Representativeness  heuristic occurs when an individual makes a general assumption about the likelihood of an event through unreliable information. It can be easily described as making judgement of an object and categorizing them wholly just by getting a fragment of information.

Here, after Henry meets a woman who opposes the death penalty, the fact that he assumes that women are more likely to oppose the death penalty than men is a case of representativeness heuristic. Just by observing one woman's opinion, he assumes that all women are likely to oppose the death penalty.