PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Positive Psychology, Fallacy, 6 Years
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Iq test was given teachers were told some scored higher ( bloomers) randomly assigned they asked how the teachers expectations about students would impact how they treat students and their academic performances teachers treated in different ways gave bloomer s more attention encouragement support created a warmer environment than others gave bloomers more and harder materials to learn. Social cognition what are heuristics? heuristics mental shortcuts that people use to make quick judgement ( sometimes inaccurate) about uncertain events schema and heuristic both help us but heuristics are more for events where the answer is uncertain sequences are equally likely representative heuristics tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood by which is resembles the typical case but we are just as likely to get both not just one ( people tend to judge the sequence a than b because it seems representative of what would really happen)
