PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky
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Chapters for midterm: chapter 8 (thinking- read from book), chapter 9 (development- do not need to read), chapter 12 (social psychology- read from book) Because this task is difficult, it cannot be easily completed without a calculator, so adjustments are made. The most common answer given is 500, but the actual answer is. Now think about images we frequently see on the media (tv, newspapers, maga- zines, etc. o. Ex: after 9/11 there were many news stories and images of plane crashes highlight- ing similar events. o. After 9/11 people started driving instead of flying to get to their destination (if pos- sible), because they thought, based on what they saw through the media, that flying was more dangerous than driving. o. True statistics show us that driving is far more dangerous than flying, as people are more likely to be killed by road collisions than in plane crashes o.
