Ilayda assumes that her professors spend their free time reading books and engaging in intellectual conversation, because the idea of them spending their time playing volleyball or visiting an amusement park does not fit in with her stereotypes of professors. This exemplifies ________ .

representational bias refers to the fact that we tend to use our preexisting infomation to judge the current situation at the absence of sufficient information available to make judgements.

For example we usually associate long white coat with a doctor so if we were to see someone in distance wearing a long white coat we will assume they are a doctor, or if we see someone going to a gym everyday we may tend to think that they exercise there but we may find that they only work there but don't partake in exercising. This is a representative bias.

Ilayda is using representative bias because we know professors as academics it is very likely that we can associate them with only reading books and engaging in intellectual conversations and we can't see them in an amusement park , this is just our preconceived ideas that we tend to associate with each situation.