PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Representativeness Heuristic, Operationalization
26 Feb 2016
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Look at how being older or younger affects the size of your social group. Info would be interesting, even though not causation. P. g 63 - study looked at how people respond to discriminatory situations - how was. Because it is very unlikely for things to be perfectly matched. When we encounter info against our schemas, we are still motivated to keep our schemas intact. Heuristics: mental shortcuts people use to make judgements quickly and efficiently. Dying from a shark, or falling airplane parts. Because vivid examples of deadly shark attacks easily come to mind. Make judgements based on how easily something comes to mind. Estimate the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype that already exists in our minds. Assume someone is more likely to be a computer science major over arts due to the fact that previous information is typical of a computer science student.
