PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Daniel Kahneman

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400H
• Professor: Chan- Reynolds Michael

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Trick quesions take advantage of mental schema: using ambiguous words. Experise is problemaic when a schema matches a previous schema, but isn"t that: presents a bias. Generate and test: generate a number of soluions. Professor menioned elaborate encoding leads to beter recall. Means-ends: involves generaing a goal and then sub-goals. Ex. change how i study, sub learn other ways of studying. Deducive is drawing speciic conclusions from general principles: mathemaics. Inducive is drawing general conclusion from speciic instances: psychology. Staisics making inferences of a sample on a populaion. Wason (1968) you have four cards, all feature a leter and a number and the other side: if a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other side. Answer is a & 9: airming the consequent then denying, airming antecedent, denying antecedent, if an envelope is going to hong kong, is needs a custom sign on the other side.