PNB 2XA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cerebral Achromatopsia, Sunk Costs, Mental Rotation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Course: PNB 2XA3
• Professor: David I Shore

Document Summary

Availability: a heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Availability ease at which you grab onto an idea influences decisions. More available ways to imagine bias to this way. Can think of many more unique pairs than unique sets of eight. What is most salient to you drives thinking fast system. Anything that affects memory will tend to distort freq. judgements. More time you hear it, more you believe it. R as the first letter or third hard to imagine, construct. Experts only see a sub-sample of information. The information you get at first anchors decision. Take information and forget context or logic. Look for confirmatory evidence for our beliefs. Fix images of old men with canes to have object correl. Given pairs of observations of children"s dishonestly, asked to judge covariation. Everyone believes they are better than the average. Get some information on how people are processing mental images by measuring time it takes to perform tasks.