PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Behavioral Neuroscience, John Stuart Mill, Illusory Correlation
12 May 2013
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Often, it involves finding an explanation for our own behaviours or the behaviours of others. Other times, intuition is used to explain intriguing events that you observe, as in the case of concluding that adoption increases the chances of conception among couples having difficulty conceiving a child. Illusory correlation: occurs when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together. Aristotle: factors associated with persuasion or attitude change: in his rhetoric, he describes the relationship between persuasion and credibility. Persuasion is achieved by the speakers personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think hum credible. We believe good men more fully and readily than others : he would argue that we are more likely to be persuaded by a speaker who seems prestigious, trustworthy, and respectable than by one who lacks such qualities.
