Kankshi Malavi is a 4th semester BA.H (Liberal Arts and Human Sciences) student. Her social psychology module assignment involves examining the representativeness heuristic. The 3-page document defines representativeness heuristic as comparing something new to an existing prototype or stereotype. It provides an example of how people may not view atypical professors as representative of the professor prototype. The document also discusses an experiment where participants used representativeness to make quick judgments about a person based on a description.