Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Exercise 26

Once during a hospital stay, you observed a man and a woman (both in health professional attire) talking. You assumed that the man was a physician, and that the woman was a nurse. Later, you found out the opposite was true. What type of heuristic did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals?
A) availability heuristic
B) representativeness heuristic
C) vividness heuristic
D) matching heuristic