Question

Jaden has a horrible pain on his right side, a symptom that is prototypical of appendicitis. Even though he does not have any of the other symptoms of appendicitis, he is convinced he has it and goes to the emergency room. He is mortified to learn that all he had was a bad case of gas. Because Jaden's error was based on the prototype of the symptom he had, he relied on the ______________ heuristic.

Answer 1

Answer:

representativeness heuristic

Explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that in this scenario Jaden seems to have relied on the representativeness heuristic. This term refers to assessing something based on the similarity of the objects and organizing them based on that specific category. Which is what Jaden has done in this scenario by assuming that he had appendicitis solely due to the fact that he had one similar symptom.