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My Alien Conformed The Typical Alien

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My alien conformed the typical alien, big head, skinny legs and arms, big eyes. I think that it conformed the typical alien because it is the common prototype that is shown in movies and magazines. I painted my alien the way I have been told over my life they look like. Moreover, I have seen the representation of an alien many times, therefore when I was asked to draw an alien I did not have to spend time thinking about how an alien looks like. I believe it conformed the typical alien because of automatic processing and availability heuristic. Automatic processing “involves processing information in a more effortless and impulsive manner, sometimes without full awareness” (Myers & Winter, 2012). In other words, it is when we say or do something

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