Jack Had Never Met a Professor Before He Went to College

Multiple Choice

Jack had never met a professor before he went to college. However, from what he had heard, he developed a mental image of all professors being male, absent-minded, middle-aged, wearing glasses and tweed sports jackets, smoking a pipe, and speaking with a British accent. This mental image is best described as a(n) ________.

A) compensatory model
B) concept
C) algorithm
D) heuristic