Question

People sometimes have to assess whether someone is a member of a particular group. in assessing whether someone is gay or a republican, for example, we often rely on the ________ heuristic, which entails figuring out the degree to which ________.

Answer 1

First blank: Representativeness; second blank: someone resembles a category prototype. 

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Answer 2

Answer:

1- Representativeness;

2- someone resembles a category prototype.

Explanation:

Representativeness means to sympathize and fit into the interests and characteristics of a particular social class or people group. It is a competence attributed to an individual or an entity (political, sexuality, religion, etc.) based on the ability to perform such a role. In other words, representativeness makes us separate people into groups according to how much an individual resembles a category prototype.