If you guess that a slender young woman who is soft-spoken and athletic is a ballet dancer, rather than a CEO of a Fortune-500 company, then you used which of the following in your judgment of her?
A) a mental set
B) confirmation bias
C) the availability heuristic
D) the representativeness heuristic

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The representativeness heuristic is used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty. In this case, the judgment that the woman is more likely a ballet dancer than a CEO is based on stereotypes or typical characteristics associated with ballet dancers (e.g., slender, young, athletic) rather than CEOs, indicating the use of the representativeness heuristic.

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