The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:

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judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype

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underestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments

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judge the likelihood of an event in terms of how readily instances of its occurrence are remembered

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cling to our initial conceptions, even though they have been discredited

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